Infrastructure and Utilities
Making Britain work better
Whether you're working in general infrastructure, as one of our telecomms providers, in the energy sector or for our other utility providers - you're helping to build, deliver and maintain Britain's physical backbone. Infrastructure and utilities keep Britain working harder.
Naturally, you need high quality mapping and location data insights about tree growth, flooding, subsidence and other factors that will impact your planning, roll-out, and management of assets. If you want maximum efficiency, options for your land and better management of your facilities all-round, all year round - we can help with that. For example...
OS MasterMap Topography Layer
OS MasterMap Topography Layer is the most detailed and accurate view of Great Britain's landscape – from roads to fields, to buildings and trees, fences, paths and more.
Product DetailsOS MasterMap is the most detailed, current and comprehensive map dataset of Great Britain, enabling you to make better decisions and manage your assets more effectively. Working with the other mapping layers in the suite, OS MasterMap Topography Layer gives you the visual context to help interpret addresses, routes and imagery. OS MasterMap is the approved dataset for planning applications and land registration.
Continually updated, OS MasterMap contains 450 million geographic features found in the real world, from detailed building and road outlines to water features, pathways, bus shelters and letter boxes.
OS MasterMap is ideal for:
- Use in CAD or GIS
- Planning
- Site location and evaluation
- Risk management
- Transport and infrastructure
- Asset management
- Environmental analysis
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- 6 weekly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:1250
- Formats Available
- DWG, SHP, GML, TAB, DXF, GDB, KML, TIFF
- Stated Accuracy
- Urban +/- 1m
- Stated Accuracy
- Rural +/- 8m
- Stated Accuracy
- +/- 8m
- Licence Options
- 12, 24 or 36 months
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
Related Products
PDF Plans, Aerial Photography, OS MasterMap Highways Layer, OS Mastermap ITN, OS Mastermap Imagery Layer, Lidar, AddressBase Plus
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OS MasterMap Highways Network
OS MasterMap Highways Network provides an authoritative view of the whole road network in Great Britain, ideal for routing and public sector data-sharing.
Product DetailsOS Mastermap Highways Network is the Ordnance Survey's latest and most comprehensive dataset of Great Britain's road network and is the next generation of the well-known product OS ITN. It is comprised of a suite of products that brings together the best information from authoritative sources in to one central location.
In addition to road centre lines and classifications, Highways features richer content that is better structured to allow for analysis as well as visualisation. Highways has been designed with traffic analysis, asset management, planning and the emergency services in mind, allowing users to plan for tomorrow. It gives you accurate and precise asset management information on who maintains the road network and the type of surface reinstatement values. And it's a valuable reporting tool, for key facts and statistics about the road, against a consistent and authoritative base.
OS Highways - Roads can be extended using OS Highways - Routing, and OS Highways - Paths
OS Highways - Roads attribution includes:
- road classification, naming and numbering
- vehicle restrictions
- links to OS Addressbase and the USRN
- roads under construction
- public/private maintained roads
- special engineering difficulty
- special event information
- road hazards: overhead structures, level crossings, movable bollards, gates
- protected streets
- traffic sensitive roads
OS Highways - Routing additionally includes:
- turn restrictions
OS Highways - Paths additionally includes:
- links between roads/paths
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:1250
Related Products
OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS MasterMap ITN, OS MasterMap Imagery Layer, Lidar
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OS VectorMap Local
A highly-detailed, customisable, street-level map at 1:10,000 scale, showing physical boundaries around properties, building outlines, paths and street names, for the accurate lie of the land.
Product DetailsOS VectorMap Local is a vector mapping dataset designed to provide contextual mapping outputs. Generated from large-scale source data OS VectorMap Local is ideally suited for applications where 1:10,000 raster backdrop mapping would have previously been used.
VectorMap Local offers the user the flexibility to turn on and off layers of mapping and to style the data as required, allowing the user to create custom maps highlighting their features of interest.Purchasable as a user defined area and deliverable in a range of GIS and CAD formats VectorMap Local is viewable and printable at a variety of scales. The product contains the following features:
• buildings, structures and leisure areas
• roads, paths and tracks
• vegetation and surface features
• water features and associated detail
• railways and associated detail
• spot height
• archaeological and antiquity information
• text
• miscellaneous information – remote areas, foot bridges, house names and all buildings.
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- Quarterly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:10,000
- Formats Available
- SHP, TAB, GML, DWG
- Licence Options
- Annual
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
Related Products
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OS MasterMap PDF Location Plan
A plan at 1:1250 scale in PDF format tailored for submitting to your local authority for a range of planning applications
Product DetailsAll PDF plans come complete with a north arrow and scale bar automatically. On Step 2 of Plans Ahead customers can add a range of markups to outline their property and other features.
PDF plans process automatically and customers are emailed the plan within minutes. Unusually large plans are made available to download, which also typically takes just a few minutes. Customers may send the PDFs to their local authority electronically, or print out the PDF as many times as is required for their planning application.
Location Plans (usually at 1:1250 scale) along with Site/Block Plans (at 1:500 scale) can be purchased from our Plans Ahead service online.
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Ordnance Survey
- Update Cycle
- 6 weekly
- Coverage
- GB
- Scale
- 1:1250
- Formats Available
- Licence Options
- Perpetual
- Delivery Timescale
- Within minutes
Related Products
OS MasterMap Topography Layer, Aerial Photography
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Groundsure Insight
The three key Enviro, Geo and Map Insight reports, combining unique environmental and geological datasets with the highest resolution historic mapping available.
Product DetailsGroundsure Insight delivers detailed and accurate information using extensive and unique environmental and geological datasets as well as providing you with the highest resolution historic mapping available.
Groundsure’s Historic Land Use Database (HLUD) is the most accurate and reliable information available on the market. Our HLUD is derived from historic Ordnance Survey mapping dating back to the 1840s, scanned in at over 500dpi – setting a new industry.
This sharper imagery means you can see the information more clearly and benefit from greater confidence in your opinion. Each map is manually assessed by an in-house GIS consultant before we deliver it. The Full pack includes National Grid, County Series and Town Plans at scales: 1:10,000, 1:10,560, 1:2,500, 1:1,250, 1:1056 and 1:500.
The Geo Insight report provides all the geo-environmental data required to make informed decisions and identify potential ground stability problems that may affect ground investigation, foundation design or possible remediation options.
What does it cover?
- Historical Land Use information
- Environmental Permits, Incidents and Registers
- Hydrology and Hydrogeology data including abstractions, source protection zones (SPZ), now with SPZ within confined aquifers
- Basic flood data including EA Flood Zones, RoFRaS and groundwater
- Detailed BGS 1:50,000 scales geology
- Groundsure’s unique historical surface and underground workings database
- Groundsure’s mining and mineral extraction database
- BGS non-coal mining hazards data
- BGS BRITPITS current ground workings information
- BGS borehole records, hyperlinked to online BGS scans
- Estimated background soil chemistry information
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Groundsure
- Coverage
- England and Wales
- Scale
- 1:2500 and 1:10,000
- Formats Available
- Licence Options
- Perpetual
- Delivery Timescale
- 4 working hours
Related Products
PDF Plans, OS MasterMap Topography Layer
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Utility Essentials
This report gives visibility of the 5 key services – Gas, Electric, Water, Sewage and British Telecom, supplied for areas of up to 25 hectares.
Product DetailsThe Essentials report is collated and delivered in 5 working days and is ideal for remote sites where only the main utilities providers are likely to be present or projects where the aim is merely to check the availability of the main utilities (water/sewer, gas, electric and BT) e.g. in the planning stages of a new development.
Due to the extensive nature of some searches and the number of utilities searched, it can happen that not all responses are received within the relevant timeframe. When this does occur your report will be delivered with all available content as requested, and a final report will be delivered as soon as the missing information has been received. Please note, a search of Vtesse Networks Ltd is not included in this report. If you require a Vtesse Networks Ltd search this is available through our Utility Singles Telecoms report.
Technical Details
- Supplier
- Technics
- Coverage
- GB
- Formats Available
- Licence Options
- Perpetual
- Delivery Timescale
- 5 working days