Buildings and infrastructure data

Explore mapping data designed to provide information about the built environment

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What is buildings and infrastructure data?

These datasets bring together detailed data on buildings, structures, and transport infrastructure, to support planning, asset management, and emergency response with precision and clarity.

Features of buildings and infrastructure data

Building-level intelligence

Access rich building attributes including roof type, basement presence, construction material, and access points.

Comprehensive structure mapping

Model manmade features such as bridges, dams, tunnels, solar panels, and green roofs with detailed classifications.

Transport infrastructure insights

Visualise and analyse roads, railways, paths, and streetlight coverage, with attributes like road width, surface type, and adjacent land cover.

Throughfares

The built extent of transport thoroughfares, attributed with information such as road width, surface type and associated structures (e.g. bridges and tunnels) support advanced modelling and infrastructure management.

Flexible data filtering

Query and filter data by building use, transport type, or structure category to support bespoke analysis and modelling across urban and rural environments.

Sector-ready intelligence

This collection delivers actionable insights for a wide range of sectors, including infrastructure planning, environmental monitoring and energy modelling, maintenance, and assessments.

Products offering these key features

This features table highlights which features are available in buildings and infrastructure products.

FeatureProducts
Detailed building outlinesOS Building Features,
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
Building heightOS Building Features,
OS MasterMap Building Height Attribute
Detailed building informationOS Building Features
Structures such as bridges, pylons and wallsOS Structure Features,
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
Field boundariesOS Structure Features,
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
Roads, railways, tracks and pathsOS Transport Features,
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
StreetlightsOS Transport Features

The buildings and infrastructure products

  • OS Building Features

    Access data on buildings and building features, including building heights, lines, and access points, across Great Britain

  • OS Structure Features

    Our comprehensive list of structure features - manmade constructs that are not buildings: dams, bridges, chimneys, post boxes, and many more.

  • OS Transport Features

    Visualise transport features including roads, tracks, railways, and paths across Great Britain. Analyse streetlight coverage to support safe, well-lit, active travel routes.

  • OS MasterMap Topography Layer

    OS MasterMap Topography layer provides a map dataset of Great Britain's landscape – from roads to fields, to buildings and trees, fences, paths and more.

  • OS MasterMap Building Height Attribute

    OS MasterMap Topography Layer is a dataset showing building heights for Great Britain.

  • OS Open Linked Identifiers

    An open dataset of cross-referenced identifiers between various OS data products.

  • OS Open TOID

    A dataset of unique identifiers for a wide range of land-scape and built environment features with a generalised location from OS MasterMap products.

  • OS NGD API - Features

    Perform powerful geospatial analysis. Filter the data to receive exactly what you need, as and when you need it.

  • OS Features API

    With OS Features API, you can filter Ordnance Survey data for buildings, roads, rivers, hospitals, playing fields, and greenspaces.

  • OS Vector Tile API

    A vector tile service providing detailed Ordnance Survey data as a customisable basemap.

  • OS Linked Identifiers API

    Access the relationships between properties, streets and OS MasterMap identifiers for free.

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