Publishing Licence for printing OS maps

Use our Publishing Licence to publish our maps within a publication, on a merchandising product or on your websites.

This licence entitles you to

Publish our maps within a single publication, merchandising product or on your website.

  • Businesses
  • General public

Key features

Use OS maps on websites

You can publish images of OS mapping on your website.

Merchandise products with OS maps

Reproduce mapping on merchandising products on a regular basis or in large quantities.

Licence agreement

Use cases
  • Publish OS maps in print, online or on merchandise.
Customer suitability
  • Businesses
  • General public
Length of licence
Per publication
Licence fee

Minimum licence fee is £49.75 plus VAT, depending on requirements

Terms and conditions

Licence fee

If you are producing a publication or merchandising product, the licence fee depends on the total amount of mapping reproduced and the number of copies printed.

Licence restrictions

Our product licence only covers a single publication. Reprints of a publication, reissues or further editions of a publication will require a new licence.

Mapping used on a website is restricted to 100 extracts of facsimile mapping (each extract being no larger than 200 cm 2 at original scale) or 3000 extracts of redrawn mapping (each extract being no larger than 100 cm 2 at original scale). There are no restrictions for merchandising products.

OS OpenData products

If you want to publish a map which has been sourced from OS OpenData, you don’t need a publishing licence. There is a separate licence that covers the use of OS OpenData products.

Third party OS data entitlements

Refer to copyright acknowledgements.

Documents and support

Licence terms

  • Publishing Licence
    Use our Publishing Licence to publish our maps within a publication, on a merchandising product or on your websites.
    pdf
    v1.3
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    April 3, 2024

Trademark acknowledgements

  • Product names and trademarks
    An extensive list of product names and trademarked brands registered to Ordnance Survey
    link
  • Crown Copyright
    Our data and our brand are protected by a variety of intellectual property (IP) rights (including copyright, database rights and trade marks), and our primary income comes from licensing these IP rights to Government, public sector organisations, commercial businesses and consumers.
    link

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Key features
  • Use OS maps on websites
  • Merchandise products with OS maps
This licence entitles you to

Publish our maps within a single publication, merchandising product or on your website.

Length of licence
Per publication

How to apply

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If you want use OS mapping in publications for personal or commercial use, apply using the form below.

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