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	September 2025
OS NGD Land	Intertidal Areas	September 2025
OS NGD Water	Continuous Tidelines River Width	September 2025
OS NGD Transport	Bus Lanes (initial release) Cycle Lanes (initial release)	September 2025
OS NGD Address	Royal Mail Address Feature Type	September 2025
OS NGD Administrative and Statistical Units	Postcodes (new collection) - Points and Polygons Functional Areas (new collection) - Retail Areas	March 2026
OS NGD Land Use	Vacant and Derelict Land	March 2026
OS NGD Transport	Bus Lanes (GB coverage) Cycle Lanes (GB coverage)	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 Identifiers	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
Premium Basemap compatible with OS NGD	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 early 2026. Contact us to help develop this product with your feedback.
OS 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, likely 2026. 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.

Product End of Life

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

Product	Recommended alternatives and information	Notice date	End of Life date
OS MasterMap Water Network Layer	OS NGD Water Network Collection Read End of Life product notices	Friday 28 February 2025	Tuesday 31 March 2026
OS Match & Cleanse API (via OS Partner only)	Migration options Read End of Life product notices	Friday 28 February 2025	Tuesday 31 March 2026
OS Detailed Path Network	No plan to directly replace due to low customer use and National Park only coverage. Paths data is available in the OS NGD	Summer 2025	Summer 2026
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	Autumn 2025	Spring 2027
AddressBase AddressBase Plus AddressBase Plus Islands	OS NGD Address theme Some customers may prefer to migrate following the upcoming release of Address Royal Mail Feature Type enhancement (see ‘New OS NGD releases' table).	Autumn 2025	Spring 2027
OS MasterMap Greenspace Layer OS Open Greenspace OS OpenMap – Local (OML) OS VectorMap District (VMD)	Contact us to help develop this product with your feedback.	Spring 2026	Spring 2027
OS Open Zoomstack	See ‘Alpha and Beta products’ table.	Spring 2026	Spring 2027
Code-Point with Polygons Code-Point	Postcodes (new collection) - Points (feature) and Polygons (feature) (initial release) will be available from March 2026, see 'New OS NGD releases' table.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
Code-Point Open OS Open Names OS Names API Boundary-Line OS Open Roads OS Open Rivers OS Open TOID OS Open Linked Identifiers OS Open Linked Identifiers API OS VectorMap Local (VML)	Enhanced versions and/or replacements for these open data products will be subject to future customer engagement and product development.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
OS MasterMap Sites Layer	OS NGD Land Use Features Collection	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
OS MasterMap Topography Layer – Building Height Attribute	OS NGD Building Features Collection	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
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, an alternative product 'Premium Basemap' is in development. Find out more under 'Alpha and Beta products'.	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
OS Features API	OS NGD API – Features \| OS National Geographic Database	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
OS Maps API	This will be subject to future customer engagement and product development. Where a Vector Tiles API is a suitable alternative, see OS NGD API - Tiles	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029
OS Vector Tile API	OS NGD API – Tiles \| OS National Geographic Database	TBC*	TBC** – anticipated between Summer 2027 - Spring 2029

* 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.