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KML files containing the public rights of way of Isle of Wight
The council of the Isle of Wight have provided me with a zip file that has several ESRI shape files that has the details of their paths. The ESRI shape file seems to have been created on 12th August 2024. As well as having ESRI shape files for public rights of way, the zip file also has ESRI shape files for the Coastal Path, Cycle Routes, Permissive Footpaths and Permissive Bridleways. I have constructed a new zip file that only has the four ESRI shape files for their public rights of way. Aside: thanks to David Groom for obtaining the first set of ESRI shape files from the Council back in 2017.
The council also provides an online map of their public rights of way - click on the "View the leisure map" link on this web page. They also provide PDFs showing their public rights of way - click on the "Rights of way maps" link on that web page.
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 Isle of Wight have informed me that the data 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 Isle of Wight.
I have transformed the four ESRI shape files into four KML files: KML file for footpaths, KML file for bridleways, KML file for restricted byways and KML file for BOATs.
On December 18th 2024, RW pointed out to me that the data provided by the Council for each restricted byway does not have a parish and a route-number. Although I don't usually alter a council's data, I have now modified the KML file for restricted byways to have this information. I have used other data that the Council provides in order to do this.
When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.
I have combined the data in these four KML files and converted this data into the basic KML format that is used by this web site for all authorities. For each public right of way, this basic KML format has the name of the authority (Isle of Wight), a unique number within the authority for the public right of way, the name or number of the parish/community, the name or number of the public right of way, the type of the public right of way (i.e., footpath, bridleway, ...) and any additional information about the public right of way that I've obtained from the data supplied by the authority. Here is a link to the converted KML file for Isle of Wight.
This KML file has been augmented with additional information. For each public right of way, the augmented format also includes its length (in miles), the longitude and latitude of its first point, the longitude and latitude of its last point, the eastings and northings of its first point and the eastings and northings of its last point. Here is a link to the augmented KML file for Isle of Wight.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Isle of Wight in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.