Ordnance Survey's product roadmap

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Our goal is to develop and provide the best location data available for Great Britain (GB), making it easier to access, keeping it up to date, and improving connectivity between datasets.

The OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD) is the foundation of our next generation data products, offering customers the best data experience to meet their needs for location insight. Our vision for the OS NGD is to unlock increased customer value, improve the customer experience, and support and evolve ‘fit for future products’, sustainably.

This OS product roadmap gives you a sneak peek of what we are focusing on in 2025 and beyond, plus what we plan to retire. It covers the near-, mid- and long-term of OS product development and gives our current estimate of when specific products will be released or retired (what we call ‘End of Life’).

As with any roadmap, the enhancements listed here are tentative, may evolve, be delayed, or removed from the roadmap as priorities change. We'll revise the roadmap throughout the year to ensure it reflects the latest information.

What does End of Life mean?

End of Life for a product means that OS stops publishing updates and removes access to the product from the OS Data Hub and our APIs. We will issue customer notices at least 12 months prior to the End of Life date. (Products with high usage and/or known complexities with migration will have a longer notice period.) PSGA Members can retain and continue to use data from End-of-Life products if they wish beyond the withdrawal date; there is no obligation to delete it.

New OS NGD releases

OS NGD themeRelease dateFeatures / Attributes
OS NGD BuildingsSeptember 2025
  • Building Physical State
OS NGD LandSeptember 2025
  • Intertidal Areas
OS NGD WaterSeptember 2025
  • Continuous Tidelines
  • River Width
OS NGD TransportSeptember 2025
  • Bus Lanes (initial release)
  • Cycle Lanes (initial release)
OS NGD Administrative and Statistical UnitsMarch 2026
  • Postcodes (new collection) - Points (feature) and Polygons (feature) (initial release)
  • Functional Economic Market Areas (new collection) - Retail (feature) (initial release)
OS NGD Land UseMarch 2026
  • Vacant and Derelict Land
OS NGD AddressMarch 2026
  • Address (data schema version 3.0)
OS NGD TransportMarch 2026
  • Bus Lanes (GB coverage)
  • Cycle Lanes (GB coverage)

Find more information on the latest OS NGD enhancements and future OS NGD enhancements.

Other product enhancements

ProductRelease dateFeatures / Attributes

OS Emergency Services Gazetteer

July 2025
  • Tunnels

OS Emergency Services Gazetteer

March 2026
  • Crowd Sourced Names
  • Weirs
  • Slipways
  • Third Party Bridge Identifiers

Alpha and Beta products

A product goes through several iterations to shape its development before full release. These releases are to gather feedback and validate learning from customers and Partners.

ProductRelease dateDescription
'Premium' basemapAlpha expected during 2025.
Product launch targeted Spring 2026
Detailed basemap of Great Britain's landscape, including features representing manmade and natural environment. Designed for use alongside OS NGD themes or as a standalone product.
Open ZoomstackAlpha expected during 2025.
Product launch targeted Spring 2026
National to local level basemap in an all-in-one zoomable product. Replacement for current OS Open Zoomstack product, designed for use alongside OS NGD themes or as a standalone product.

OS Enhanced Land Cover Beta

Spring 2025Enhanced ecology mapping for England using UKHAB classifications.

Product End of Life

All timings subject to in-flight product development and customer readiness.

Notice dateEnd of Life dateProducts
28 February 202531 March 2026
Summer 2025Summer 2026
  • OS Detailed Path Network
Autumn 2025Spring 2027
  • Addressbase
  • Addressbase Plus
  • Addressbase Plus Islands
  • OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads
  • OS MasterMap Highways Network – Routing and Asset Management Information
  • OS MasterMap Highways Network – Paths
Spring 2026*Spring 2027*
  • OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer
  • OS Open Greenspace
  • OS Open Zoomstack
  • OS OpenMap – Local (OML)
  • OS VectorMap District (VMD)
TBC* – at least 12 months prior to end of life dateTBC* – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
  • Code-Point with Polygons
  • Code-Point
  • Code-Point Open
  • OS Open Names
  • OS Names API
  • Boundary-Line
  • OS Open Roads
  • OS Open Rivers
  • OS VectorMap Local (VML)
  • OS Open TOID
  • OS Open Linked Identifiers
  • OS Open Linked Identifiers API
  • OS MasterMap Sites Layer
  • OS MasterMap Topography Layer – Building Height Attribute
  • OS MasterMap Topography Layer
  • OS Features API
  • OS Maps API
  • OS Vector Tile API

*Subject to suitable alternatives being available via new data releases and enhancements

The continued development, release or removal of features, attributes and/or datasets is at the discretion of Ordnance Survey.

What support is available?

  • We are engaging with OS Partners and software/systems providers to ensure they are aware of the End of Life product roadmap.
  • We are providing documentation to enable migration, including information on benefits, technical guidance and code examples.
  • Our Consultancy Services team are available to support Public Sector customers as part of the PSGA provision.

If you have an immediate question and are a PSGA customer, contact us, so we can direct your enquiry to the right team. If you are an OS Partner, please contact your account manager.