We toured the country with OS OpenData masterclasses, showing people how to work with open data and put it into their own products and services. The Hub runs the Geovation Programme to help start-ups using third-party property or location data accelerate and grow. Our desire to be part of the open data revolution saw the birth of Geovation in 2010, with a series of annual challenges designed to get entrepreneurs working with open data and geography.Īnd in 2015, we opened the Geovation Hub in Clerkenwell, London. This gave anybody free access to premium OS data, such as OS MasterMap, to explore how it could benefit their own products or business.

And we created a Data Exploration Licence for products which are not included in the open data portfolio. Licensing was simplified through the Open Government Licence (OGL), which made it easier for customers to do more. In 2015 we released OS Open Map - Local, OS Open Names, OS Open Rivers, and OS Open Roads. On average, 150 people download OS OpenData every day.

Over the past eight years we’ve seen our open data downloaded 1.9 million times. And ever since, OS has updated and added to its open data sets. OS OpenData was made freely available for the first time in 2010, when 12 OpenData mapping products were released. 1.9 million open data downloads in eight years

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