[GIS] Network Analyst data for the UK

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Where can I locate data that can be used to calculate driving distances in the UK using the Network Analyst extension to ArcGIS Desktop 10?

The data that came with my software (I'm in the USA) only covers North America.

I see that ESRI sells StreetMap Premium which covers europe: http://www.esri.com/data/streetmap

How much does this data cost? I am assuming it is expensive since they don't even list a price and I would prefer some cheaper options.

It looks like you might be able to buy data from Navteq/teleatlas (referenced here http://tereshenkov.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/street-data-for-network-analyst/ ) but that they will require a lot of manual processing.

Is there anything like TIGER for the UK that is provided by the government? The Ordnance Survey website didn't appear to have any streetmap style data.

Best Answer

If you want Free (but you will have to do a lot more pre-processing) OS VectorMap™ District is available. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

For commercial rotatable data you have 3 options.

Ordnance Survey - OS MasterMap® Integrated Transport Network™(ITN) http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/itn-layer.html

(Many £££/$$$$)

TomTom (aka TeleAtlas)

http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/products/maps/multinet/

or

Nokia (aka NAVTEQ® Map Data)

http://www.navteq.com/products_data_content.htm

from memory Navteq was the cheapest option, OS was the most expensive (os map data was 860% more expensive than the entire project budget).

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