Ordnance Survey Aims to Take on Google, Apple Maps with New Free Data Hub, APIs

guest · Jul 2, 2020

Ordnance Survey Aims to Take on Google, Apple Maps with New Free Data Hub, APIs
“We’ve removed the technology barrier and the pricing barrier”
July 2, 2020
https://www.cbronline.com/news/geospatial-data-hub-ordnance-survey

For businesses looking to make use of a comprehensive geospatial data set — updated 20,000 times daily and offering over 500 million features — the Ordnance Survey (OS) has just stepped firmly up to the plate.

The national mapping agency, founded in 1791, is living firmly in the present with the launch this week of a new geospatial Data Hub, that lets developers access the organisation’s “MasterMap” along with other data through a new set of six APIs; up to £1,000-worth of it for free every month.
The Ordnance Survey hopes to make its data sets a compelling offering for businesses developing apps requiring location data that might otherwise bake Google Maps and Apple Maps into their applications.

“That’s about half-a-billion features, and it’s updated 20,000 times a day. It’s really comprehensive, highly accurate. It’s used by all the big utilities insurance companies, central government and local government, emergency services, large delivery companies.
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With the Data Hub, core location identifiers like UPRNs (Unique Property Reference Numbers), USRNs (Unique Street Reference Numbers) and Topographic Object Identifiers (TOID) can now be used in conjunction with each other to provide detailed safer routes for cyclists, or to map out trees, according to the UK’s Geospatial Strategy.

Today’s API release mean that these maps can overlay and correspond to each other, giving the maximum amount of information about the UK, its houses, businesses and public and private spaces, right down to property footprint, including height.
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Welcome to the Ordnance Survey Data Hub

Bring your solutions to life with OS data and APIs.
Get started for free and benefit from the power of location by incorporating Great Britain’s most comprehensive geographic data into your applications.

OS Vector Tile API - Slick, quick vector maps.
OS Features API - Buildings, roads, greenspaces and much more.
OS Names API - A free, searchable, reliable database to help you find and verify populated places, road names, road numbers and postcodes. [...]
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