Publish our maps within a single publication, merchandising product or on your website.
Publishing Licence for printing OS maps
Publishing Licence for printing OS maps
Use our Publishing Licence to publish our maps within a publication, on a merchandising product or on your websites.
- This licence entitles you to
- Businesses
- General public
Key features
Use OS maps on websites
You can publish images of OS mapping on your website.
Merchandise products with OS maps
Reproduce mapping on merchandising products on a regular basis or in large quantities.
Licence agreement
- Use cases
- Publish OS maps in print, online or on merchandise.
- Customer suitability
- Businesses
- General public
- Length of licence
- Per publication
- Licence fee
Minimum licence fee is £49.75 plus VAT, depending on requirements
Terms and conditions
Licence fee
If you are producing a publication or merchandising product, the licence fee depends on the total amount of mapping reproduced and the number of copies printed.
Licence restrictions
Our product licence only covers a single publication. Reprints of a publication, reissues or further editions of a publication will require a new licence.
Mapping used on a website is restricted to 100 extracts of facsimile mapping (each extract being no larger than 200 cm 2 at original scale) or 3000 extracts of redrawn mapping (each extract being no larger than 100 cm 2 at original scale). There are no restrictions for merchandising products.
You can find more information on calculating mapping and measuring mapping on our how to measure a map and calculate the royalty fee page.
OS OpenData products
If you want to publish a map which has been sourced from OS OpenData, you don’t need a publishing licence. There is a separate licence that covers the use of OS OpenData products.
Third party OS data entitlements
Refer to copyright acknowledgements.
Documents and support
Licence terms
- Publishing LicenceUse our Publishing Licence to publish our maps within a publication, on a merchandising product or on your websites.
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
- Use OS maps on websites
- Merchandise products with OS maps
- This licence entitles you to
Publish our maps within a single publication, merchandising product or on your website.
- Length of licence
- Per publication
How to apply
I want to apply for a Publishing Licence
If you want use OS mapping in publications for personal or commercial use, apply using the form below.