May 2016

No limit

CSV

N/A

N/A

Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020

1:10,000

N/A - single dataset covering the whole of Great Britian

• Identifying and naming features
• Cross Local Authority or County analysis

• Official User Guide: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/user-guides/os-locator-user-guide.pdf
• Official Getting Started Guide: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/user-guides/os-opendata-getting-started-guides.pdf
• Ordnance Survey Product Information: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-locator.html
• Ordnance Survey Support Information: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/help-and-support/products/os-locator.html

Note: This dataset is no longer updated. OS Locator™ will be withdrawn by Ordnance Survey as of October 2017. OS Open Names is recommended as a suitable alternative.

OS Locator has been designed to allow users to refine searches of road names or numbers by providing additional reference to localities and recognised geographies such as local authority and county. This is essential to overcome the ambiguities associated with quick identification of precise locations based solely on road names or numbers. For example, the name ‘High Street’ is repeated hundreds of times throughout the country, whilst many roads extend for several kilometres without a change to either road name or number.

With over a 850,000 entries, OS Locator is a national gazetteer of road names. It enables users to identify and find specific locations by a number of criteria, including locality, settlement, local authority and county. It has been created to compliment Ordnance Survey’s range of mid-scales raster map data products, such as OS Street View®.

As a point-based gazetteer of road names, OS Locator does not contain any road geometry although it does contain coordinates to create a rectangle encompassing the extent of the road referenced in the gazetteer, a minimum bounding rectangle. Results of searches can be easily visualised using the gazetteer in conjunction with backdrop mapping products.

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/docs/user-guides/os-locator-user-guide.pdf