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GeoJSON files containing the public rights of way of Somerset
The council of Somerset provide a
web page
that has a link labelled Rights of Way GIS Files.
If you click on this link,
you will get a new web page on which the text
Rights of Way GIS files.zip
is displayed.
To the extreme left of this text, there is a button displaying a downarrow symbol.
If you click on this button, a file with the name
Rights of Way GIS files.zip
will be downloaded.
This zip file has an ESRI shapefile
that has the details about the public rights of way of Somerset.
The data that rowmaps has for Somerset is the data that is dated 27th September 2024.
The Council also provides information about its public rights of way on its online map. It may be that their map uses more up-to-date information.
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.
On this web page, the Council indicates thatthe precise line of a right of way can only be determined by reference to the Definitive Map (1:10560 scale). Somerset Council can accept no responsibility for any error or inaccuracy which may arise from the transposition of the Definitive Map to a different scale.
This web page says that unless otherwise stated, the content made available on the Council's web pages 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 Somerset.
Elsewhere on this web site, there is a web page about how this web site provides the public rights of way of Somerset 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:
ST|FR|14/81
There are three parts to the name:
"ST" (meaning "Somerset"),
the id of the parish/community
and the id of the path within the parish/community.
The description will be something like:
Fo|ST:533|0.202|323|-2.29883|51.20037|-2.30136|51.19798|379217,144615|379039,144350
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 Somerset;
GeoJSON file for bridleways in Somerset;
GeoJSON file for restricted byways in Somerset;
GeoJSON file for byways open to all traffic in Somerset.
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 22W511Fo.json
contains details about the Footpaths that are partly/wholly in the
square that is west and north of -2.2 degrees longitude
and 51.1 degrees latitude.
Here is a link to a
zip file containing all the smaller GeoJSON files for Somerset.
The latitude values for Somerset range from 50.82 to 51.32. And the longitude values range from -3.83 to -2.24.