Named places and features
Quickly find named locations, such as towns, hills, lakes or beaches. Identify places with multiple names and look up places with an alternative language name, including English, Welsh, and Gaelic.
OS Named Features
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What OS Named Features provides you with
Crowd sourced names
Find unofficial, colloquial names given for geographic features and locations provided via crowd sourcing. This is particularly designed to assist emergency services.
Named road junctions
Clarify locations on road networks with named intersections between roads at junctions and roundabouts.
Use cases
- Organisations can take advantage of the named features collection to support expansion, including asset management and development of infrastructure. Retail organisations can also try site selection to identify viable locations for a new store.
- Emergency service responders can quickly and more accurately confirm incident locations in situations that relies on colloquial place names.
Additional information
This data is generated from the National Geographic Database
The National Geographic Database (NGD) sets the benchmark in accuracy and completeness for location data. NGD data helps businesses and government make critical decisions, and deliver vital services with the utmost confidence and certainty.
The NGD is the single store of Ordnance Survey’s authoritative data for Great Britain; the repository of millions of records that precisely define the built and natural environment, in unparalleled detail.
Central to the power of NGD data is a single, structured database. Unlike previous generations of OS data, NGD data is built for analytical uses and designed to be the bedrock of more intelligent solutions. It reduces the complexity towards insight and getting the answers you need.