Become a Recommended Route Provider for OS Maps

Recommended Routes are authoritative routes on OS Maps curated by our trusted partners. They are served first in any search results to users and include the route provider name and logo on the route card.

Here are some reasons why:

  • We give you access to a ready-made, market-leading, navigation and mapping app for your official routes
  • It's free to upload and manage your content
  • Your routes are marked with Recommended Route Provider verification mark
  • Expand your reach to over 4 million active users of OS Maps
  • Promote official routes via OS Maps to manage visitor flows 
  • Measure impact and evaluate route performance through analytics
  • Enable engagement through route design activities with networks and volunteers 
  • Enhance your brand through a visible partnership with Ordnance Survey.

Recommended routes in OS Maps

To ensure we maintain the standard of the routes we are recommending to our users, we ask all potential route providers to first consider the following guidance:

 

Recommended Routes:

  • Are plotted accurately to a high waypoint density; use snap-to-path where appropriate
  • Keep to public rights of way or access land
  • Do not cross impassable terrain.

Recommended Route descriptions should be:

  • Informatively named, e.g. Loch Gynack moorland route, Cairngorms
  • Appropriately tagged with technical difficulty rating, e.g. easy/moderate/difficult/severe
  • Providing additional helpful information, e.g. access to amenities, car parks, toilets, refreshments
  • Inclusive, e.g. pushchair/wheelchair or stile free access indicated where present, bi-lingual where appropriate.

Links to the relevant physical OS Maps should also be provided where possible.

Recommended routes:

  • Have been followed and checked by a direct or third-party representative of the partner organisation.
  • We advise that these routes are periodically checked.

If you think your route collection meets these requirements, please complete our application form.

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