KML files containing the public rights of way of Somerset

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KML 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 that

the 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.

I have transformed the ESRI shapefile into a KML file.

When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.

I have converted this KML file 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 (Somerset), 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 Somerset.

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 Somerset.

This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Somerset in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.