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OS Open Names

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Content Licence
Not Applicable

Verification
self certified

Release Date
24 March 2015
Modified Date
24 March 2015
Update Frequency
biannual
Publishers
Ordnance Survey customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk
Keywords
gazetteer, geographical-names, os-locator, post-code

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Description

OS Open Names is a geographic directory that contains basic information about identifiable places (Named Place). The content of the Product is divided into themes based on their type and local type classification values. The primary use of the product is to provide the location for a named place to support discovery or identification and visualisation, geocoding, routing and navigation and linking diverse information about a place (for example, statistics or descriptions). The name of the place will be the key property used for querying. It is also recognised that a place may have multiple names; an official name, which may be defined in multiple languages (English/Welsh or English/Gaelic), for example, Cardiff (English) and Caerdydd (Welsh). Names are not unique so additional location information is provided to enable users to refine their query to select the Named Place they are interested in. These include: postcode district, populated place, district/borough, county/unitary authority, European region and country. The OS Open Names specification will extend the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) Geographical Names theme to ensure that it is compliant with European open data initiatives.

General Information

Legal Information

  • This data was

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  • The rights statement is at

    http://data.gov.uk/dataset/os-open-names Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • There are

    yes, and the rights are held by different people or organisations Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data contains

    no data about individuals Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The sources of this data are described at

    https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The curator has published

    machine-readable data about the sources of this data Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data is available under

    UK Open Government Licence Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights and licensing of the content are explained at

    https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights statement includes data about

    what attribution text to use Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights statement includes data about

    its data licence Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights statement includes data about

    a copyright notice or statement Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights statement includes data about

    the copyright year Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights statement includes data about

    the copyright holder Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

Practical Information

Technical Information

  • Releases of this data are listed at

    http://data.gov.uk/api/rest/package/os-open-names Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The format of this data is

    a standard open format Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data is

    machine-readable Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Geographic data is published

    in a generic data format Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The data includes

    persistent identifiers Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The persistent identifiers

    resolve because they are URLs Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Third-party URLs are

    referenced in this data Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The provenance of this data is

    machine-readable Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data can be verified using

    http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

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