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GeoJSON files containing the public rights of way of Barking and Dagenham

The council of Barking and Dagenham have provided me with an ESRI shape file that has the details of their public rights of way. The ESRI shape file seems to have been created on 11th March 2024. I have bundled the files of the ESRI shape file into a zip file

An authority's Definitive Map is the authoritative source of their rights of way. The details of the public rights of way network contained in an authority's data are for information only, and are an interpretation of the Definitive Map, not the Definitive Map itself, and should not be relied on for determining the position or alignment of any public right of way. For legal purposes, an authority's data does not replace their Definitive Map. And changes may have been made to the Definitive Map that are not included in their data. The authority's data contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Attempting to view this data with more detail than 1:10000 may produce an inaccurate rendering of the route of a public right of way.

The council of Barking and Dagenham have informed me that the ESRI shape file is made available under the terms of Open Government Licence v3.0. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you give the attribution that the data has been provided by the council of Barking and Dagenham.

Elsewhere on this web site, there is a web page about how this web site provides the public rights of way of Barking and Dagenham in KML format. That web page explains how I've augmented the basic KML with additional information.

I've converted this augmented KML into GeoJSON. Besides giving the longitudes and latitudes of the route of a public right of way, each entry in the GeoJSON also has a name and a description.
The name will be something like:
BD||160
There are three parts to the name: "BD" (meaning "Barking and Dagenham"), the id of the parish/community and the id of the path within the parish/community.
The description will be something like:
Fo|BD:19903975|0.634|1019|0.07891|51.52918|0.07891|51.52918|544303,183189|544303,183189
This gives other information about the public right of way. First, there is a two letter code giving its type which is one of Fo (meaning Footpath), Br (meaning Bridleway), Re (meaning Restricted byway) and BO (meaning Byway open to all traffic). Following this code, there are a unique name, the length in miles, any additional information obtained from the data supplied by the authority (or none), the longitude of its first point, the latitude of its first point, the longitude of its last point, the latitude of its last point, the eastings and northings of its first point and the eastings and northings of its last point.

The following GeoJSON files are available:
GeoJSON file for footpaths in Barking and Dagenham;
GeoJSON file for bridleways in Barking and Dagenham;
GeoJSON file for restricted byways in Barking and Dagenham;
GeoJSON file for byways open to all traffic in Barking and Dagenham.

Because some of these GeoJSON files are large, the GeoJSON is also available in a large number of smaller files. Each smaller file has information about public rights of way that are in a square that is 0.1 degrees longitude wide and 0.1 degrees latitude high. For example, the file 00E515Fo.json contains details about the Footpaths that are partly/wholly in the square that is east and north of 0.0 degrees longitude and 51.5 degrees latitude.
Here is a link to a zip file containing all the smaller GeoJSON files for Barking and Dagenham.

The latitude values for Barking and Dagenham range from 51.51 to 51.59. And the longitude values range from 0.07 to 0.18.