OS Open Greenspace

Find the location of public parks, playing fields, sports facilities, play areas, allotments and more with OS Open Greenspace.

A valuable dataset to stimulate creative thinking and innovation to meet current challenges.

Finding greenspaces has never been easier. Britain’s most comprehensive Open dataset of greenspace provides the foundation for you to help create greener and healthier communities.

Understand the location of public parks, playing fields, sports facilities, play areas and allotments, along with access points for entering and exiting urban and rural greenspaces.

Date (Publication): 2017-05-23

Date (Revision): 2020-04

Citation identifier: https://os.uk / OS Open Greenspace

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ordnance Survey		customerservices@os.uk	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: Biannually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land cover

OS Greenspace form dictionary

OS Greenspace function dictionary

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Open Government Licence which allows you to: copy, distribute and transmit the data; adapt the data; and exploit the data commercially, whether by sub-licensing it, combining it with other data, or including it in your own product or application. We simply ask that you acknowledge the copyright and the source of the data by including the following attribution statement: "Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021"

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 25000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Location

Geographic identifier: Great Britain

Begin date: 1880 Before

End date: 2018-12-20

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Distribution format

Name	Version
GML	3.2.1
ESRI Shapefile	1.0
GeoPackage	1.0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://os.uk/business-and-government/products/open-map-greenspace	Product description
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenGreenspace/downloads?area=GB&format=ESRI%C2%AE+Shapefile&redirect	Shapefile download
null	https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenGreenspace/downloads?area=GB&format=GML&subformat=3&redirect	GML download
null	https://api.os.uk/downloads/v1/products/OpenGreenspace/downloads?area=GB&format=GeoPackage&redirect	Geopackage download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: Greenspace is not an INSPIRE compliant dataset

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: OS Open Greenspace Technical specification

Date (Revision): 2017-05-10

Edition: 1.1

Explanation: Greenspace conforms to its own specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: OS Open Greenspace is a generalised product which has been automatically simplified from Ordnance Survey large

scale data

Metadata

File identifier: 3ffcf0ee-e43a-4d61-bc45-d10a384e90c3 XML

Metadata language: English

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-05-09T09:18:04.291062Z

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ordnance Survey		os.data@os.uk	Point of contact

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