OS NGD API – Tiles

OS NGD API – Tiles offers you a vector tile service powered by the OS NGD. It provides a detailed and customisable basemap that's based on the latest OGC API – Tiles standard to help you create stunning and interactive web maps. It can be used with most web mapping libraries, including OpenLayers, MapLibre GL JS and Leaflet. The major benefit of vector tiles is that they are optimised for use across the internet and are therefore great for building interactive web maps that allow users to zoom, pan, rotate, tilt and more.


This product is updated weekly

Data access
  • API
Data structure
  • Vector
Scale/resolution
National scale to building scale (1:5 000 000 to 1:1 250)
Format
  • Vector Tiles
OS Data Hub plan
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)

What OS NGD API – Tiles provides you with

Provides lightweight, high-resolution vector tile base maps in different styles and projections for fast rendering in interactive applications.

Access to pre-defined, professional styling which can be customised to meet your own requirements and map designs.

Access build in and detailed overlays to add give additional geographic context.

Use cases

  • Offers scalable vector tiles, allowing users to overlay their own datasets onto a detailed basemap, providing spatial context. 
  • Create fast, responsive maps with custom styling, ideal for web apps and GIS platforms. 
  • Embed branded, interactive basemaps into customer portals, planning tools or dashboards. 

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.

Explore NGD Documentation

OS NGD API – Tiles offers you a vector tile service powered by the OS NGD. It provides a detailed and customisable basemap that's based on the latest OGC API – Tiles standard to help you create stunning and interactive web maps. It can be used with most web mapping libraries, including OpenLayers, MapLibre GL JS and Leaflet. The major benefit of vector tiles is that they are optimised for use across the internet and are therefore great for building interactive web maps that allow users to zoom, pan, rotate, tilt and more.


This product is updated weekly

Data access
  • API
Data structure
  • Vector
Scale/resolution
National scale to building scale (1:5 000 000 to 1:1 250)
Format
  • Vector Tiles
OS Data Hub plan
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)