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Open data and licences
Last updated 22 October 2026
Independence
HighwayIQ is an independent service run by HighwayIQ Ltd. It is not an official government or council service. Our use of open data does not mean that the Department for Transport, the Office for National Statistics, Ordnance Survey, the Department for Education or any highway authority endorses HighwayIQ.
Data we use, and attribution
- Street Manager open data, Department for Transport. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Ward and local authority district boundaries, Office for National Statistics. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.
- OS Open Roads and OS Open USRN, Ordnance Survey. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right.
- NaPTAN (bus stops), Department for Transport. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Get Information about Schools, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Postcode geocoding via postcodes.io, based on the ONS Postcode Directory. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right. Source: Office for National Statistics, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The Open Government Licence is published at nationalarchives.gov.uk.
Map tiles
Maps in the HighwayIQ application use data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
Accuracy
Open data is provided by its publishers “as is”. HighwayIQ’s results depend on the accuracy of the underlying records. See data quality and limits.