These guidance notes explain the OS Locator data product available in Data Download. Locator is a ASCII text file, colon separated, available as a .csv file; it comprises of Road Names and their locations across Great Britain.
When used within a GIS, OS Locator enables users to identify and find specific locations. This enables users to make searches on road names by a combination of criteria, including: locality, settlement, local authority and county. OS Locator can be used in location finding applications, such as customer service centres and for use on the web, in conjunction with 1:10 000 Scale Raster, 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster and OS Street View.
The data is approximately 120 MB in size.
This table sets out the fields that are present in the data for each entry:
Field name | Example | Description |
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Name |
ALRESFORD ROAD |
Feature name |
Classification | B3404 | Road number classification |
Centx |
449590 | X co-ord for centre point of road object |
Centy |
129430 | Y co-ord for centre point of road object |
Minx |
448797 |
X co-ord for SW corner of the road object box |
Maxx |
450392 |
X co-ord for NE corner of the road object box |
Miny | 129422 |
Y co-ord for SW corner of the road object box |
Maxy | 129510 |
Y co-ord for NE corner of the road object box |
Settlement | WINCHESTER | Town in which the centre of the object falls |
Locality | St. John and All Saints | 1990 boundaries description for the point at the centre of the object |
Cou_Unit | Hampshire County | County in which the centre of the object falls |
Local Authority | Winchester District |
Local Authority in which the centre of the object falls |
Tile_10k |
SU42NE |
1:10 000 tile reference for the centre point of the object |
Tile_25k |
SU42 |
1:25 000 tile reference for the centre point of the object |
Source | Roads | Source of information |
OS Locator contains road names from: