Ordnance Survey Road Data
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Ordnance Survey Road Data

Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom) has launched a digital map dataset showing the weight, width and height restriction applying to road bridges in Great Britain. More than 110,000 bridges have been surveyed. The data will help freight and other heavy goods vehicles to avoid unsuitable routes, potentially reducing traffic volumes on quiet rural roads. It will also help reduce fuel costs, increase efficiency and enable businesses to give customers more precise delivery times.


The bridge data is available to users of the Road Routing Information (RRI) theme of Ordnance Survey's overall digital road data product, OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer. The RRI theme already includes a range of network and routing information. Before the development of the ITN Layer, information on weight, width and height was only available on an ad hoc basis from different sources.


The new data will be available to ITN Layer RRI theme customers from the end of October 2006.

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