How OSNI data is licensed

Most LPS services and phone helplines are available. Customer Information Centres will remain closed until further notice. You can email rating@lpsni.gov.uk (for queries about your rate bill), valuation@lpsni.gov.uk (for property valuation queries) or CustomerInformation.LandRegistration@finance-ni.gov.uk (for land registry queries). The Ordnance Survey helpline remains closed however you can email Mapping.Helpdesk@finance-ni.gov.uk for mapping queries.  You can keep up to date with available services at the Department of Finance website.

Innovators and developers

An innovator licence gives free access to Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) Geographic Information for product development. If a developer creates a product they want to sell, they must sign a value added reseller (VAR) agreement with LPS. They need to sign the agreement before they sell any products. 

For more information, contact LPS:

• telephone: 0300 200 7804 
• telephone: +44 28 9049 5802 (from outside the UK)
• email: commercial@finance-ni.gov.uk

Value added resellers

A value added reseller (VAR) licenses geographic digital data from LPS and creates a product by adding value to the digital data. When a VAR creates a product, they pay LPS a royalty or fee for using  the digital data.

For more information, contact LPS:

• telephone: 0300 200 7804 
• telephone: +44 28 9049 5802 (from outside the UK)
• email: commercial@finance-ni.gov.uk
• Valued added resellers

Solution provider's licence

A solutions provider licenses geographic digital data from LPS to create data or a digital solution for one organisation's internal business usage. 

• telephone: 0300 200 7804 
• telephone: +44 28 9049 5802 (if calling from outside the UK)
• email: commercial@finance-ni.gov.uk

Distributors

LPS licenses distributors to provide digital data or sell OSNI-branded paper mapping.

For more information, contact LPS:

• telephone: 0300 200 7804 
• telephone: +44 28 9049 5802 (from outside the UK)
• email: commercial@finance-ni.gov.uk
• LPS distributors

Wholesalers and retailers

A wholesaler buys large amounts of OSNI-branded paper mapping from LPS and sells that mapping to retailers.

A retailer buys large amounts of OSNI-branded paper mapping  from LPS or an LPS wholesaler. The retailer sells individual maps or map sets to the public in a shop or store.

For more information, contact LPS:

• telephone: 0300 200 7804 
• telephone: +44 28 9049 5802 (if calling from outside the UK)
• email: copyright@finance-ni.gov.uk

Making a commercial agreement

For more information on commercial agreements, contact LPS:

• telephone: 0300 200 7804 
• telephone: +44 28 9049 5802 (from outside the UK)
• email: commercial@finance-ni.gov.uk

More useful links

• Land & Property Services helpdesks
• Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland