OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads

For all highways stakeholders, OS MasterMap Highways Network is data you can trust. It draws on authoritative sources and helps underpin the common operational picture that leads to faster, better decisions.

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What OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads provides you with

Unified highways data

A common highways dataset means a common understanding of the existing network, enabling better decision and policy making.

Unique identifiers

Highly detailed road geometry supplied with essential unique identifiers, including the Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) and topographic identifiers (TOIDs) enables linking and sharing of data against the road and street networks.

Future proofed data

Get detailed information about planned roads and roads under construction helping you to better understand the roads of today and the roads of tomorrow.

Comprehensive and authoritative

OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads combines high-quality, accurately surveyed data with features from the National Street Gazetteer; the Local Highways Authorities road name, numbering and maintenance; the Trunk Road Street Gazetteer collected by Highways England and Welsh Government; and the Scottish Street Gazetteer containing information from Scottish local authorities and Transport Scotland.

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OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads

Technical information

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Specifications

Use cases

OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads can be used for:

  • source for legal road identifications
  • costings or benefits of road policies
  • calculating funding allocations
  • evidence-based policy making
  • journey and transport planning
  • emergency service planning
  • enforcement regulation
  • traffic statistics
  • school allocation
  • smart cities
Access
  • Download
Data theme
  • Transport
Data structure
Vector - Topologically structured link and node network
Coverage
Great Britain
Scale
1:1250 to 1:10,000
Format
  • GML 3.2.1
  • GeoPackage
  • Vector Tiles
Ordering area
  • All of Great Britain or customisable area (user defined polygon)
OS Data Hub plan
  • Premium Plan
  • Public Sector Plan

Documents and Support

Getting started guides

Technical specification

Supporting documents

  • OS MasterMap Highways - Playbook
    This playbook provides simple ways to tackle common questions about OS MasterMap Highways.
    pdf
    v1.5
    1,040 kb
    5 February 2018
  • Getting started with vector tiles
    This guide will help you to get started using vector tiles (MBTiles) – lightweight tiles that are efficient and quick to render in your software, letting you create customised, high-resolution, beautiful mapping.
    pdf
    v1
    845 kb
    23 September 2022
  • Getting started with GeoPackage
    This guide helps you to get started using GeoPackage - a lightweight format that can contain large amounts of complex data in a single, easy to distribute and ready to use file.
    pdf
    v2
    1.11 mb
    30 September 2021
  • Product refresh dates
    Find out the update frequencies of our premium products and the calendar months that they are updated.
    link
  • Guide to routing for the public sector
    This document is a guide to the basics of route analysis for Public Sector organisations.
    pdf
    v1
    1,287 kb
    28 March 2019
  • Use of NSG and OS Data
    This document isa briefing note on the use of the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) and Ordnance Survey Data.
    pdf
    v1
    97.6 kb
    23 May 2023
  • OS MasterMap Network schemas and codelists
    Access the schemas and codelists describing the data structure and content.
    link

Release notes

OS MasterMap Highways Network - Roads

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What you get

Key features
  • Unified highways data
  • Unique identifiers
  • Future proofed data
  • Comprehensive and authoritative
Category
Networks
Access
  • Download
Data structure
Vector - Topologically structured link and node network
Update frequency
Monthly

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