Ordnance Survey's product roadmap

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 theme	Release date	Features / Attributes
OS NGD Buildings	September 2025	Building Physical State
OS NGD Land	September 2025	Intertidal Areas
OS NGD Water	September 2025	Continuous Tidelines River Width
OS NGD Transport	September 2025	Bus Lanes (initial release) Cycle Lanes (initial release)
OS NGD Administrative and Statistical Units	March 2026	Postcodes (new collection) - Points (feature) and Polygons (feature) (initial release) Functional Economic Market Areas (new collection) - Retail (feature) (initial release)
OS NGD Land Use	March 2026	Vacant and Derelict Land
OS NGD Address	March 2026	Address (data schema version 3.0)
OS NGD Transport	March 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

Product	Release date	Features / 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.

Product	Release date	Description
'Premium' basemap	Alpha 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 Zoomstack	Alpha 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 2025	Enhanced ecology mapping for England using UKHAB classifications.

Product End of Life

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

Notice date	End of Life date	Products
28 February 2025	31 March 2026	OS MasterMap Water Network Layer Read End of Life product notices OS Match & Cleanse API (via OS Partner only) Read End of Life information
Summer 2025	Summer 2026	OS Detailed Path Network
Autumn 2025	Spring 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 date	TBC* – 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.