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KML files containing the public rights of way of Dorset
The council of Dorset provide a web page for downloading their public rights of way data. When you go to this web page, it'll automatically produce a zip file which you can then download. The zip file has data for the public rights of way that are in Dorset. It has the data in three formats: KMZ, MapInfo files and an ESRI shape file.
The Council also provides information about 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.
The ReadMe.html file in the HTML_1 folder in the zip file says that the data files are 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 Dorset.
I have transformed the ESRI shape file into a KML file.
When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.