OS Open Names
What OS Open Names provides you with
Accurate locations of streets and postcodes
Let your customer-facing staff find places quickly when talking to callers. OS Open Names provides the accurate locations of streets and postcodes in Great Britain.
Place name data
Quickly look up places and roads with two names. OS Open Names contains place name data in English and their Welsh, Scots or Gaelic alternatives.
Comprehensive National Grid data
OS Open Names contains over 870,000 named and numbered roads, nearly 44,000 settlements and over 1.6 million postcodes, all matched/mapped to the National Grid.
Additional information
OS Open Names level of detail
OS Open Names doesn’t go down to the level of locations of individual houses, but it does show the location of roads. It also tells your GIS how far to zoom out to show the full length of your street. For property locations, you will need one of the OS AddressBase products.
Need complete addresses?
If your work requires the full postal address, we recommend AddressBase products.