OS Open Names
OS Open Names is a comprehensive dataset of place names, roads numbers and postcodes for Great Britain.
This product is updated quarterly
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What OS Open Names provides you with
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.
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.
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OS Open Names
Technical information
Specifications
- Access
- Download
- Data theme
- Administrative and Statistical Units
- Geographical Names
- Transport
- Data structure
- Vector
- Coverage
- Great Britain
- Scale
- 1:1250 to 1:10,000
- Format
- CSV
- GML 3.2.1
- GeoPackage
- Ordering area
- All of Great Britain
- Publication months
- January
- April
- July
- October
- OS Data Hub plan
- OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
- Premium Plan
- Public Sector Plan
Documents and Support
Technical documentation
- OS Open Names technical documentationVisit docs.os.uk to access all technical documentation for this product, including getting started guide, technical specification, release notes, and other supporting documents.
OS Open Names
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What you get
- Key features
- Accurate locations of streets and postcodes
- Place name data
- Comprehensive National Grid data
- Category
- Addressing and location
- Access
- Download
- Data structure
- Vector
- Update frequency
- Quarterly
How to access
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