Explore and use OS premium data to develop your ideas for free before deciding if the paid-for service is for you.
Data Exploration Licence
Data Exploration Licence
Our Data Exploration Licence (DEL) allows you to use OS data for free for 6 months.
- This licence entitles you to
- Businesses
- General public
- Developers
Key features
Develop your ideas and propositions
Evaluate our exploration data and use it to research and develop. It doesn’t matter if you’re not sure how our data might help you yet. You can assess it for a potential commercial opportunity or see what potential benefits and value it could bring to you, perhaps to build a case for licensing exploration data in your business or organisation.
Display exploration data to promote your work
Create working prototypes using our data to demonstrate and promote your ideas on your own equipment. Showcase how your ideas or propositions would work. This is ideal for potential customers, agents, investors or other financial backers.
Use exploration data in live trials or tests
Use OS data in time-bound events to promote collaboration and innovation, to provide better insight into specific uses, or develop ideas or answer particular questions. You can use it as part of competitions, hackathons and mash-ups for example.
Licence agreement
- Use cases
- Use OS premium data to develop your own ideas
- You could be anyone, large or small, well established or start-up, looking into the potential of using OS premium data
- You might be thinking about how you could use OS data as part of a commercial product or service you’re looking to develop.
- Customer suitability
- Businesses
- General public
- Developers
- Length of licence
- 6 months
- Licence fee
Free
Terms and conditions
Third party OS data entitlements
Our DEL lets you use our OS data for 6 months. It also lets you use third party OS data for three months.
For instance, our AddressBase, AddressBase Plus, AddressBase Premium and AddressBase Islands products.
What we need for this licence
We ask that you provide us with information about you and your company or organisation.
Acknowledge that you’re using exploration data and that you’re doing so in the right way by using our style guide (PDF).
Make sure any prototypes you provide, or any OS data you provide is returned to you or destroyed within seven days. Tell us if doing this might disrupt your long term plans and we can discuss appropriate licensing.
Take sensible measures to make sure all exploration data supplied to you is secure from any unauthorised use or access.
What you must not do under this licence
Do not make any exploration data available to third parties or create any products or services which have benefitted from, relied on or made use of our exploration data.
If you want to do that, then tell us. We can then agree how to make this happen.
Want to use our data internally?
Data available under the DEL can only be used to develop your idea for a product or service for third parties, or to see if the data would be suitable to meet your own internal business requirements.
If you want to use the data for your own internal business use upon expiry of your DEL, you’ll need to contact one of our Licensed Partners to licence the data.
Education and research use
The DEL is not intended for (educational use or) academic research. If you require OS data for this, please visit Education use.
Documents and support
Licence terms
- Data exploration licence - Licence termsThis file provides the terms and conditions for the data exploration licence.
Style guide
- References and IPR acknowledgementsThird party style guide
Trademark acknowledgements
- Product names and trademarksAn extensive list of product names and trademarked brands registered to Ordnance Survey
- Crown CopyrightOur data and our brand are protected by a variety of intellectual property (IP) rights (including copyright, database rights and trade marks), and our primary income comes from licensing these IP rights to Government, public sector organisations, commercial businesses and consumers.
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Get this licence
- Key features
- Develop your ideas and propositions
- Display exploration data to promote your work
- Use exploration data in live trials or tests
- This licence entitles you to
Explore and use OS premium data to develop your ideas for free before deciding if the paid-for service is for you.
- Length of licence
- 6 months
How to apply
I want to download OS data
If you want to download OS data so you can store and use it locally, you can apply on the OS Data Hub. Please note, you will need specialised software to use the data.
I want to access OS data via an API
If you want to access data via an API you can do this on the OS Data Hub. This is particularly applicable if you're looking to design, develop and launch applications.