Land Cover - Great Britain: OS Land Features

# Introduction

Ordnance Survey's premium land cover dataset is the most current and comprehensive data available for Great Britain. It contains point, line, and polygon features that are manmade (for example, tennis courts, residential gardens, construction sites) or natural land (for example, coniferous trees, cliffs, heath or rough grassland), but excludes features exclusively associated with buildings, structures, transport and water (the excluded features can be found in OS Buildings, OS Transport Network, OS Land Use Features, or OS Water Network). It is enriched with geometry change metadata, a description of the feature and detailed land use and land cover classification information. OS land cover classifications are also aligned to European Nature Information System (EUNIS) and UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Broad Habitats classification schemes.

Land cover data from OS ensures highly accurate insight into land and its characteristics, and is trusted by businesses and government to inform critical decisions and deliver vital services with complete confidence.

Category: Land & terrain

Coverage: Great Britain

Data structure: Vector / Geometry

Update Cycle: Monthly

Documentation: [OS NGD Land | OS National Geographic Database](https://docs.os.uk/osngd/data-structure/land)

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## What's in this product?

- Land
- Landform
- Landform line
- Landform point
- OSID (Ordnance Survey Identifier)
- TOID (Topographic Identifier)
- Geometry
- Geometry area
- Description
- Metadata including update date and source
- Land use classification
- Land cover classification
- Habitat description
- Habitat classification

## What is its value?

Urban vs rural analysis: use the dataset to uncover the differences between urban, rural and moorland areas to inform policy development, infrastructure planning and using third party datasets, demographic studies.

Environmental impact assessments: evaluate how proposed developments might affect natural land features.

Perils modelling: study terrain characteristics to inform flood risk assessment.

## Case Studies

- [The value of nature in house prices | Blog | OS](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/accounting-value-nature-house-prices)
- [Location data at heart of nature recovery | OS](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/news/location-data-at-heart-of-nature-recovery)
- [The value of nature in house prices | Blog | OS](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/accounting-value-nature-house-prices)
- [Harnessing AI and automation for OS location data | OS](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/insights/harnessing-ai-technology-automation-ordnance-survey)
- [Natural Flood Management](https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9472791e53494c21b235e9aeccf9ade0)

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## **Sample Licensing - Free for up to 3 months**

The [OS NGD Sample Data Trial Licence](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licences/os-ngd-sample-data-trial-licence.pdf) from Ordnance Survey allows you to use OS Sample Data for evaluation purposes free of charge, for 3 months. By clicking 'Get' you agree to read and accept the terms of the [OS NGD Sample Data Trial Licence](https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licences/os-ngd-sample-data-trial-licence.pdf) and acknowledge that OS may contact me from time to time to check that the licence still meets my needs and to discuss my future requirements.

<br/>The Sample data available through this Listing gives full Land attribution for three sample areas of interest: Exeter in England, Newport in Wales, and Inverness in Scotland.

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**Please contact [e-mail] to discuss obtaining access to the full Great Britain dataset.**