Capture answers to road questions
How many miles of roads are there in the country? What and where’s within 10 miles of this location? OS Open Roads lets you answer questions like these.
OS Open Roads
OS Open Roads is a high-level view of the road network, from motorways to country lanes in Great Britain. The links represent an approximate central alignment of the road carriageway and include roads classified by the National or Local Highway authority.
This product is updated every six months
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What OS Open Roads provides you with
Work with definitive road information
By underpinning your reporting tool with OS Open Roads, you’ll give highways teams a head-start on fixing issues like potholes.
OS Open Roads
Technical information
Specifications
- Use cases
The OS Open Roads product may be used for applications such as, but not limited to:
- assigning information to the road network for both personal and business use
- high-level analytical queries, for example, how many kilometres of road there are in Great Britain, an individual country or a region
- simple drive time analysis, for example, what is within a 25-minute drive of any given location?
- identifying community problems and reporting back to a relevant authority.
- Access
- Download
- Data theme
- Transport
- Data structure
- Vector
- Coverage
- Great Britain
- Scale
- 1:15 000 to 1:30 000
- Format
- ESRI Shapefile
- GeoPackage
- GML
- Vector Tiles
- Ordering area
- All of Great Britain
- Publication months
- April
- November
- OS Data Hub plan
- OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
- Premium Plan
- Public Sector Plan
Documents and Support
Technical documentation
- OS Open Roads technical documentationVisit docs.os.uk to access all technical documentation for this product, including getting started guide, technical specification, release notes, and other supporting documents.
OS Open Roads
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What you get
- Key features
- Capture answers to road questions
- Work with definitive road information
- Category
- Networks
- Access
- Download
- Data structure
- Vector
- Update frequency
- Every six months
How to access
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