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.

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What OS Open Roads provides you with

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.

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.

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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 - Topologically structured link and node network
Coverage: Great Britain
Scale: 1:15 000 to 1:30 000
Format: ESRI Shapefile
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GML 3.2.1
Vector Tiles
Ordering area: All of Great Britain
Publication months: April
November
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OS Open Roads technical documentation
Visit docs.os.uk to access all technical documentation for this product, including getting started guide, technical specification, release notes, and other supporting documents.
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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 - Topologically structured link and node network
Update frequency: Every six months

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