Accurate locations of streets and postcodes
Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain.
OS Open Names
What OS Open Names provides you with
Place name data
Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.
Comprehensive National Grid data
OS Open Names contains over 870,000 named and numbered roads, nearly 44,000 settlements and over 1.6 million postcodes, all matched/mapped to the National Grid.
Use cases
- Improves emergency planning and response times by accurately identifying named locations.
- Speeds up site analysis and conveyancing by enabling quicker, more accurate location searches.
- Supports planning applications, traffic management, and interactive maps for citizen reporting and engagement.