Customisable Cartography
Choose from prebuilt OS cartographic styles or restyle your mapping to make it your own. Customisable vector data can be styled to suit your needs.
OS Vector Tile API
Slick, quick vector maps for use as a customisable, contextual base, with a focus on web and mobile apps. Benefit from unrivalled levels of detail in your web or mobile app. OS Vector Tile API contains OS MasterMap Topography Layer including building heights.
This product is updated every six months
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What OS Vector Tile API provides you with
Powerful interactive mapping
Combining the detail of selectable OS MasterMap features for detailed analysis into an interactive web or mobile map allows you to design truly powerful vector maps.
Design the right map for you
With OS Vector Tile API you have a choice between using Ordnance Survey styles or creating your own. Design a map that matches your brand or get creative and add some cartographic flair to your application.
Optimise for web use
Vector Tiles have the benefit of being optimised for use across the internet and are perfect for interactive web maps. Zoom, pan, rotate, tilt and even extrude 3D buildings.
Slick, quick vector maps
The OS Vector Tile API is great for cartographers, designers and developers to create slick, quick vector maps with all the detail of Ordnance Survey data.
Individual map features
With OS Vector Tile API you can select and interact with the individual map features. The OS MasterMap features contain their TOIDs (a unique identifier) so you can filter, select, link and visualise.
OS Vector Tile API
Technical information
Specifications
- Use cases
You can:
- Use as a basemap in GIS, web or mobile applications.
- View the whole of Great Britain in unrivalled detail.Seamlessly pan, zoom, pitch and tilt the map.
- Overlay your own data to give it geographic context.
- Trace over OS MasterMap Topography Layers (Premium Data) detailed geometries.
- Customise the map style and content to create the map you need.
- Access the maps in different projections - British National Grid and Web Mercator.
OS Vector Tile API is great for cartographers, designers and developers to create slick, quick vector maps with all the detail of Ordnance Survey data.
- Access
- API
- Data structure
- Vector
- Coverage
- Great Britain
- Scale
- National scale to building scale (1:5 000 000 to 1:1 250)
- Format
- Vector Tiles
- OS Data Hub plan
- OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
- Public Sector Plan
- Premium Plan
Documents and Support
Technical documentation
- OS Vector Tile API technical documentationVisit docs.os.uk to access all technical documentation for this product, including overview, technical specification, and getting started guide.
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What you get
- Key features
- Customisable Cartography
- Powerful interactive mapping
- Design the right map for you
- Optimise for web use
- Slick, quick vector maps
- Individual map features
- Category
- Contextual or derived mapping
- Access
- API
- Data structure
- Vector
- Update frequency
- Every six months
How to access
OS OpenData APIs are free
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