OS Vector Tile API

  • Contextual or derived mapping

Slick, quick vector maps for use as a customisable, contextual base, with a focus on web and mobile apps. Benefit from unrivalled levels of detail in your web or mobile app. OS Vector Tile API contains OS MasterMap Topography Layer including building heights.

This product is updated every six months

Free to use for everyone
Data access
  • API
Data structure
  • Vector
Coverage
Great Britain
Scale/resolution
National scale to building scale (1:5,000,000 to 1:1250)
Format
  • Vector Tiles (.pbf)
OS Data Hub plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan

What OS Vector Tile API provides you with

Customisable Cartography

Choose from prebuilt OS cartographic styles or restyle your mapping to make it your own. Customisable vector data can be styled to suit your needs.

Powerful interactive mapping

Combining the detail of selectable OS MasterMap features for detailed analysis into an interactive web or mobile map allows you to design truly powerful vector maps.

Design the right map for you

With OS Vector Tile API you have a choice between using Ordnance Survey styles or creating your own. Design a map that matches your brand or get creative and add some cartographic flair to your application.

Optimise for web use

Vector Tiles have the benefit of being optimised for use across the internet and are perfect for interactive web maps. Zoom, pan, rotate, tilt and even extrude 3D buildings.

Slick, quick vector maps

The OS Vector Tile API is great for cartographers, designers and developers to create slick, quick vector maps with all the detail of Ordnance Survey data.

Interoperable with web mapping libraries

OS Vector Tile API can be used with most web mapping libraries including Mapbox GL JS, Leaflet, OpenLayers and ArcGIS API for JavaScript.

Use cases

You can:

  • Use as a basemap in GIS, web or mobile applications.
  • View the whole of Great Britain in unrivalled detail.Seamlessly pan, zoom, pitch and tilt the map.
  • Overlay your own data to give it geographic context.
  • Trace over OS MasterMap Topography Layers (Premium Data) detailed geometries.
  • Customise the map style and content to create the map you need.
  • Access the maps in different projections - British National Grid and Web Mercator.

OS Vector Tile API is great for cartographers, designers and developers to create slick, quick vector maps with all the detail of Ordnance Survey data.

Additional information

Individual map features

With OS Vector Tile API you can select and interact with the individual map features. The OS MasterMap features contain their TOIDs (a unique identifier) so you can filter, select, link and visualise.

Slick, quick vector maps for use as a customisable, contextual base, with a focus on web and mobile apps. Benefit from unrivalled levels of detail in your web or mobile app. OS Vector Tile API contains OS MasterMap Topography Layer including building heights.

This product is updated every six months

Free to use for everyone
Data access
  • API
Data structure
  • Vector
Coverage
Great Britain
Scale/resolution
National scale to building scale (1:5,000,000 to 1:1250)
Format
  • Vector Tiles (.pbf)
OS Data Hub plan
  • OS OpenData Plan (FREE)
  • Public Sector Plan
  • Premium Plan