OS Open Rivers

Two-dimensional topologically connected watercourse network of Great Britain. It shows the flow and the locations of rivers, streams, lakes and canals, across Great Britain. The dataset has the following attributes: watercourse name, watercourse type and direction of water flow. It is part of the OS Open suite and it designed to be used with other OS OpenData datasets. It is still undergoing development as this product is beta.

Publication date: 2015-03-31

Formats

ESRI shapefile
GML

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Provenance & quality

It has been automatically generalised from OS large scale data. Quality control procedures (including automated data testing against the product specification and visual checks) are undertaken at all stages of production to ensure that the data are accurate, complete and conform to the specification. The nominal scale is 1:25000 with a recommended viewing sale range of 1:15000 to 1:30000.

Other contacts

Originator: Ordnance Survery
customerservices@os.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Keywords: Geospatial / Map , National , River Flow and Networks
Last updated: 30 January 2017 16:59

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