Ordnance Survey's product roadmap

Our goal is to develop and provide the best location data available for Great Britain (GB). We want you to be able to easily access the most up to date data available and for it to be easily connected with other datasets.

The OS National Geographic Database (OS NGD) is the foundation of our next generation data products. Our vision for the OS NGD is for it to offer the best data experience for location insight and to provide a platform that enable us to support and evolve ‘fit for future products’, sustainably.

This OS product roadmap gives you an overview of what we are focusing on in 2025 and beyond and we are planning to retire. It covers the near-, mid- and long-term view 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 we will stop publishing updates and will remove access to the product from the OS Data Hub and our APIs. We will let you know of our intent at least 12 months prior to the End of Life date, and for products with high usage or known complexities we will provide a longer notice period. PSGA Members can retain and continue to use data from End of Life products if they wish to beyond the withdrawal date; there is no obligation to delete it.

New OS NGD releases

OS NGD theme	New features or attributes	Release date
OS NGD Buildings	Building Physical State	Released September 2025
OS NGD Land	Intertidal Areas	Released September 2025
OS NGD Water	Continuous Tidelines	Released September 2025
OS NGD Water	Watercourse Widths	Released October 2025
OS NGD Transport	Bus Lanes (initial release) Cycle Lanes (initial release)	Released September 2025
OS NGD Address	Royal Mail Address Feature Type	Released September 2025
OS NGD Land Use	Land Use Status (Inactive & Derelict Sites)	Released September 2025
OS NGD Administrative and Statistical Units	Postcodes (new collection) - Points and Polygons Functional Areas (new collection) - Retail Areas	March 2026
OS NGD Transport	Bus Lanes (GB coverage) Cycle Lanes (GB coverage)	March 2026
OS NGD Structures	Third Party Bridge Information	March 2026
Multiple themes	Update Trigger metadata, to indicate why features in NGD have been updated.	March 2026

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

Other product enhancements

Product	New features or attributes	Release date
OS Emergency Services Gazetteer	Crowd Sourced Names Weirs Slipways Third Party Bridge Information	March 2026

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	Description	Release date
NGD-compatible Basemap product	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.	Product in discovery and development. Release date TBC, alpha likely Spring 2026. Contact us to help develop this product with your feedback.
New Open Zoomstack	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.	Product in discovery and development. Release date TBC. Contact us to help develop this product with your feedback.
OS Enhanced Land Cover Beta	Enhanced ecology mapping for England using UKHAB classifications.	Beta released July 2025, available to OS Partners only.
OS 3D Mesh	OS 3D Mesh can be used to provide a 3D view of the Earth and features present on the surface. The product is ideal for visualisation of large areas and for 3D analysis such as line of sight, viewsheds and simulation.	Beta released July 2025, available to OS Partners only.

Product End of Life

All dates are dependent on the progress of product development and customer testing.

View the indicative overview (PDF)

Product	Recommended alternatives and information	Date notice anticipated	End of Life complete date
OS MasterMap Water Network Layer	OS NGD Water Network Collection Read End of Life product notices Product comparison	Notice issued: Friday 28 February 2025	Tuesday 31 March 2026
OS Match & Cleanse API (via OS Partner only)	Migration options Read End of Life product notices	Notice issued: Friday 28 February 2025	Tuesday 31 March 2026
OS Detailed Path Network	Read End of Life product notices No plan to directly replace due to low customer use and National Park only coverage. Paths data is available in the OS NGD	Notice issued: Friday 12 September 2025	Wednesday 30 September 2026
AddressBase AddressBase Plus AddressBase Plus Islands	Royal Mail Address Feature Type OS NGD Address theme Read End of Life product notices Product comparison	28^th November 2025	29^th November 2027
OS MasterMap Highways Network – Roads OS MasterMap Highways Network – Routing and Asset Management Information OS MasterMap Highways Network – Paths	OS NGD Transport Network Collection OS NGD Transport RAMI Collection Product comparison	Spring 2026	Autumn 2027
OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer	OS NGD topographic area feature types contain extensive land cover and land use attribution similar to that published in this product. This data is published in the following feature types: Land Structure Road Track or Path Rail Water	Spring 2026	Spring 2027
Code-Point with Polygons Code-Point	Postcodes (new collection) - Postcode Points and Polygons feature types will be available from March 2026, see 'New OS NGD releases' table.	Autumn 2026	Autumn 2027
OS Open Zoomstack	Alternative product in development, see ‘Alpha and Beta products’ table.	Autumn 2026	Autumn 2027
OS Open Greenspace OS OpenMap – Local (OML) OS VectorMap District (VMD) Code-Point Open OS Open Names OS Names API Boundary-Line OS Open Roads OS Open Rivers	Enhanced versions and/or replacements for these open data products will be subject to future customer engagement and product development.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Autumn 2027 - Spring 2029
OS Vector Tile API	OS NGD API – Tiles \| OS National Geographic Database Note we plan to enhance the OS NGD API - Tiles following the release of the NGD-compatible Basemap product, which is in development. Find out more under 'Alpha and Beta products'.	TBC*	TBC** - anticipated Autumn 2028
OS MasterMap Sites Layer	OS NGD Land Use Features Collection End of Life of this product is planned in relation to the NGD-compatible Basemap product, which is in development. Find out more under 'Alpha and Beta products'.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated Spring 2029
OS MasterMap Topography Layer – Building Height Attribute	OS NGD Building Features Collection End of Life of this product is planned in relation to the NGD-compatible Basemap product, which is in development. Find out more under 'Alpha and Beta products'.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated Spring 2029
OS MasterMap Imagery Layer (via OS Partner only)	Alternative product to be developed in advance of End of Life notice.	TBC*	TBC** - anticipated Autumn 2029
OS VectorMap Local (VML)	Alternative product to be developed in advance of End of Life notice.	TBC*	TBC** - anticipated Spring 2030
OS MasterMap Topography Layer	OS NGD themes are designed to replace analytical uses of Topography Layer. This data is published in the following themes: OS NGD Buildings OS NGD Structures OS NGD Land OS NGD Transport Features OS NGD Water Features Overview of the OS NGD data structure If your uses of this product are primarily visual or digitising, the 'NGD-compatible Basemap product' is in development. Find out more under 'Alpha and Beta products'.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated by Summer 2030
OS Features API	OS NGD API – Features \| OS National Geographic Database End of Life of this API is planned to align to End of Life for OS MasterMap Topography Layer.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated by Summer 2030
OS Maps API	Subject to future customer engagement and market readiness. End of Life this API is planned to align to End of Life for OS MasterMap Topography Layer. Where a Vector Tiles API is a suitable alternative, see OS NGD API - Tiles	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated by Summer 2030
OS Open TOID OS Open Linked Identifiers OS Open Linked Identifiers API	End of Life of these products is planned to align to End of Life for OS MasterMap Topography Layer. Alternative product to be developed in advance of End of Life notice regarding Linked Identifiers.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated by Summer 2030

* At least 12 months prior to End of Life date

** 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.