United Kingdom GIS data sources

Improvement Service · Scotland

Local-authority spatial data for Scotland.

• Boundaries & admin
• Transport
• Environment

Licence

Varies by dataset

Formats

GeoPackage, WMS, WFS

Link

data.spatialhub.scot

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Office for National Statistics

Census and administrative boundaries, lookups and postcode directories.

• Boundaries & admin
• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoJSON, Shapefile, CSV, ArcGIS REST

Link

geoportal.statistics.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey

OS OpenData downloads (Boundary-Line, Terrain 50, Open Roads, Open Rivers) and OS APIs.

• Boundaries & admin
• Elevation / DEM
• Transport
• Hydrology

Licence

OGL (OS OpenData) / commercial (Premium)

Formats

GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML, GeoTIFF, Vector tiles

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Single open vector basemap of Great Britain from national to street level, supplied as GeoPackage or vector tiles.

• Boundaries & admin
• Transport
• Buildings
• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, Vector tiles

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Electoral and administrative boundaries for Great Britain: counties, districts, wards, parishes and constituencies.

• Boundaries & admin

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Point location for every postcode unit in Great Britain, with admin area codes.

• Boundaries & admin
• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, GeoPackage

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Gazetteer of place names, roads and postcodes in Great Britain, useful for geocoding.

• Boundaries & admin

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, GeoPackage, GML

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland · Northern Ireland

OSNI open boundaries, 50 m DTM, gazetteer and largescale basemap layers.

• Boundaries & admin
• Elevation / DEM
• Transport

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV

Link

osni-spatialni.opendata.arcgis.com

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency · Northern Ireland

Data zones, super data zones and other statistical geographies for Northern Ireland.

• Boundaries & admin
• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, CSV

Link

nisra.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ideal Postcodes · United Kingdom

Free UK postcode lookup and geocoding API with no key needed: bulk lookups of up to 100 postcodes return coordinates, Output Area, LSOA, MSOA, ward and local authority codes.

• Boundaries & admin
• Census & statistics

Licence

MIT (software); data from the ONS Postcode Directory and OS Open Names under the Open Government Licence v3.0, with OS and Royal Mail attribution

Formats

JSON

Link

postcodes.io

Verified 27 Oct 2026

Office for National Statistics

Guide to ONS statistical geographies, lookups and boundary products; the files themselves are published on the Open Geography Portal.

• Boundaries & admin
• Census & statistics

Licence

See publisher terms

Link

ons.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

William & Mary geoLab

JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.

• Boundaries & admin

Licence

Varies (open; see metadata)

Formats

GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON

Link

geoboundaries.org

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Scottish Government · Scotland

Public-sector LiDAR and aerial photography for Scotland.

• Elevation / DEM
• Imagery

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoTIFF, LAZ

Link

remotesensingdata.gov.scot

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · England

Tile-based download of Environment Agency LiDAR DTM/DSM, point clouds, and other survey data for England.

• Elevation / DEM
• Imagery

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoTIFF, ASCII grid, LAZ

Link

environment.data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

50 m digital terrain model and 10 m contours for Great Britain.

• Elevation / DEM

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

ASCII Grid, GeoTIFF, GML

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Complete 1 m LiDAR coverage of England flown 2016-2022: DTM, first-return DSM, intensity and point cloud.

• Elevation / DEM

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoTIFF, LAZ

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Seamless 1 m bare-earth terrain model of England composited from all EA LiDAR surveys.

• Elevation / DEM

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoTIFF

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Seamless 1 m first-return surface model of about 99% of England (2022), including trees and buildings; subtract the composite DTM for a canopy or building height model.

• Elevation / DEM
• Environment

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoTIFF

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 21 Oct 2026

Defra / JNCC · England

Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery processed to atmospherically corrected, cloud-masked analysis-ready surface reflectance for England.

• Imagery

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoTIFF

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

• Land cover

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

GeoTIFF, Shapefile

Link

ceh.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Natural England · England

Broad habitat map of England classified from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery.

• Land cover
• Environment

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoPackage

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Coordinates for every Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) in Great Britain; the open key for linking address-level data.

• Buildings
• Addresses & cadastre

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, GeoPackage

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Detailed open street-level vector map including building footprints, roads, water and named places.

• Buildings
• Transport
• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML, GeoTIFF

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

National Records of Scotland · Scotland

Census results and output-area geographies for Scotland.

• Population
• Census & statistics
• Boundaries & admin

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, Shapefile

Link

scotlandscensus.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Office for National Statistics · England and Wales

Census 2021 results mapped down to output area.

• Population
• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV

Link

ons.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Office for National Statistics

Census 2021 and labour-market statistics by small area.

• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, API

Link

nomisweb.co.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Education · England

The register of every school, academy, college and nursery school in England, updated daily: address, postcode, type, phase, pupil numbers and a British National Grid easting and northing for each establishment.

• Census & statistics
• Population

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV

Link

get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Verified 3 Nov 2026

NHS England Digital · England

Monthly counts of patients registered at every GP practice in England by sex and age, with a practice-to-postcode and ICB mapping file; geocode the practices by postcode to map demand and supply.

• Census & statistics
• Population

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV

Link

digital.nhs.uk

Verified 27 Oct 2026

NHS England Digital · England

Monthly headcount and full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs, nurses and other staff at each GP practice in England, the supply side for healthcare accessibility measures such as 2SFCA.

• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, XLSX

Link

digital.nhs.uk

Verified 27 Oct 2026

Office for National Statistics · England and Wales

Median price paid for residential property in every Middle layer Super Output Area, for rolling years from 1995, by property type and for new and existing dwellings, derived from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (formerly HPSSA dataset 2).

• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

XLSX

Link

ons.gov.uk

Verified 27 Oct 2026

HM Land Registry · England & Wales

Freehold title extents for England and Wales.

• Addresses & cadastre

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

GML

Link

use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · England

National planning datasets: conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation zones and more.

• Addresses & cadastre
• Boundaries & admin

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, GeoJSON

Link

planning.data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Geofabrik / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wales

• Transport
• Boundaries & admin

Licence

ODbL 1.0

Formats

PBF, Shapefile

Link

download.geofabrik.de

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Geofabrik / OpenStreetMap contributors · Scotland

• Transport
• Boundaries & admin

Licence

ODbL 1.0

Formats

PBF, Shapefile

Link

download.geofabrik.de

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Geofabrik / OpenStreetMap contributors · England

• Transport
• Boundaries & admin

Licence

ODbL 1.0

Formats

PBF, Shapefile

Link

download.geofabrik.de

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Connected road network for Great Britain with road classification and names, suitable for routing.

• Transport

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Transport · Great Britain

Annual average daily traffic flows at count points on the GB road network.

• Transport
• Census & statistics

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV

Link

roadtraffic.dft.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Transport · Great Britain

Locations of every bus stop, rail station and other public transport access point.

• Transport

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, XML

Link

beta-naptan.dft.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Transport · England

Bus timetables, fares and live vehicle locations for operators in England.

• Transport

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GTFS, TransXChange, SIRI

Link

bus-data.dft.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Geofabrik / OpenStreetMap contributors

Daily OSM extract.

• Transport
• Boundaries & admin
• Hydrology

Licence

ODbL 1.0

Formats

PBF, Shapefile

Link

download.geofabrik.de

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Ordnance Survey · Great Britain

Generalised, connected watercourse network for Great Britain with flow direction and names.

• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML

Link

osdatahub.os.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Live flood warnings and river level, flow, rainfall and tide readings from EA monitoring stations, updated every 15 minutes.

• Hydrology
• Natural hazards

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

JSON, CSV

Link

environment.data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Archive of quality-checked river flow, level, rainfall and groundwater readings with a REST API.

• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, JSON

Link

environment.data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Water Framework Directive water bodies, catchments and classification results.

• Hydrology
• Environment

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, Shapefile

Link

environment.data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology · United Kingdom

River flow records and catchment boundaries for some 1600 UK gauging stations.

• Hydrology

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

CSV, JSON

Link

nrfa.ceh.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Met Office · United Kingdom

Daily, monthly and annual temperature, rainfall and other variables on 1 km to 60 km grids from 1836 onwards.

• Climate & weather

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

NetCDF

Link

metoffice.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Met Office / CEDA · United Kingdom

Download location for the HadUK-Grid NetCDF files (free CEDA account required).

• Climate & weather

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

NetCDF

Link

catalogue.ceda.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Met Office · United Kingdom

UKCP18 climate projections and observed climate indicators as GIS-ready layers.

• Climate & weather

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, Shapefile, GeoJSON

Link

climatedataportal.metoffice.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

Flood Zones 2 and 3 for rivers and the sea, as used in planning decisions.

• Natural hazards
• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoPackage, WMS

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Environment Agency · England

National surface-water (pluvial) flood extents and depths for a range of likelihoods.

• Natural hazards
• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, WMS

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Scottish Environment Protection Agency · Scotland

River, coastal and surface-water flood hazard maps for Scotland.

• Natural hazards
• Hydrology

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

WMS

Link

map.sepa.org.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

British Geological Survey

Onshore geology, boreholes and hazards.

• Geology

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

WMS

Link

bgs.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

British Geological Survey · United Kingdom

Free 1:625 000 bedrock and superficial geology of the UK.

• Geology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoPackage, WMS

Link

bgs.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

British Geological Survey · Great Britain

Detailed 1:50 000 bedrock, superficial, mass-movement and artificial ground geology; free view service, licensed download.

• Geology

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

Shapefile, GeoPackage, WMS

Link

bgs.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

British Geological Survey · United Kingdom

Free BGS maps, borehole scans, photographs and web services.

• Geology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

WMS, CSV

Link

bgs.ac.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

British Geological Survey · Great Britain

Ground investigation data donated in AGS format: borehole locations, logs, samples and test results, with an OGC API index of holes.

• Geology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

AGS4, OGC API

Link

bgs.ac.uk

Verified 15 Nov 2026

Natural England · England

Grades 1-5 of agricultural land quality across England.

• Agriculture & soils

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoPackage

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Rural Payments Agency · England

Annual hexagon-based crop type classification of England derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery.

• Agriculture & soils
• Land cover

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

GeoPackage, Shapefile

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

UK Hydrographic Office · United Kingdom waters

Free UKHO bathymetric survey data and seabed mapping in UK waters.

• Marine & coastal
• Elevation / DEM

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

BAG, GeoTIFF, XYZ

Link

data.admiralty.co.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Marine Environmental Data and Information Network · United Kingdom waters

Catalogue of UK marine data from government, research and industry.

• Marine & coastal

Licence

See publisher terms

Link

portal.medin.org.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Welsh Government & Natural Resources Wales · Wales

Geo-portal for Wales: LiDAR, environmental designations and planning data. Replaces the decommissioned Lle Geo-Portal.

• Environment
• Elevation / DEM
• Land cover

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoTIFF, WMS

Link

datamap.gov.wales

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · United Kingdom

Hourly and annual measurements from the Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN) and other UK air quality networks: NO2, PM2.5, PM10, ozone and more, with site coordinates and modelled background maps.

• Environment
• Climate & weather

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, RData

Link

uk-air.defra.gov.uk

Verified 19 Oct 2026

Natural England · England

Designated sites (SSSI, SAC, SPA, National Parks, AONB), priority habitats, ancient woodland and access land.

• Environment
• Land cover

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV, WMS

Link

naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com

Verified 18 Oct 2026

NatureScot · Scotland

Protected areas, habitats and landscape datasets for Scotland.

• Environment

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoJSON, WMS

Link

opendata.nature.scot

Verified 18 Oct 2026

London Borough of Camden · London Borough of Camden

Point locations of about 28,000 council-owned trees on Camden's highways, parks and open spaces, with species, height, spread, trunk diameter and maturity; downloadable or queryable through the Socrata API.

• Environment

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

CSV, GeoJSON

Link

opendata.camden.gov.uk

Verified 27 Oct 2026

Northern Ireland Executive · Northern Ireland

Open data for Northern Ireland, including OSNI open boundaries.

• Open data portal

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Link

opendatani.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

UK Government

National open data catalogue.

• Open data portal

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Link

data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs · England

Single catalogue and download point for Defra group spatial data (Environment Agency, Natural England, RPA and others).

• Open data portal
• Environment
• Hydrology

Licence

Open Government Licence v3.0

Formats

Shapefile, GeoPackage, WMS, WFS, CSV

Link

environment.data.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Scottish Government · Scotland

INSPIRE metadata catalogue for Scottish public-sector spatial datasets and services.

• Open data portal

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

WMS, WFS

Link

spatialdata.gov.scot

Verified 18 Oct 2026

Land & Property Services (Northern Ireland) · Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland spatial data infrastructure and INSPIRE catalogue.

• Open data portal

Licence

See publisher terms

Formats

WMS, WFS

Link

spatialni.gov.uk

Verified 18 Oct 2026