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Barry Cornelius
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Maps, KML and GPX showing rights of way
the purpose of this web site
Rights of way data for 136 authorities in England and Wales have been released with an open licence.
This web site can superimpose the rights of way of these authorities onto an underlying map which
can be from the Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap or Bing.
You can ask for a map that is close to a specific place.
You can also ask for transport stops
(such as bus stops)
to be added to the map.
The web site also has details about
how you could include a map on your own web page,
and how you can build a route
for a walk, run, etc.,
by selecting several rights of way
and then outputting this route in KML or GPX.
This web site also provides
links to
the original data,
derived
KML files,
derived
GPX files,
derived
CSV files
and
derived
GeoJSON files.
Changes to this web site (e.g., updates to an authority's data) are tweeted to
@rowmaps
and are added to the
tweets web page.
If you wish to see a map showing the rights of way near to a particular place, type a place name, a postcode, a grid reference or a latitude-longitude pair into one of the boxes below. Then click the search button.
Because what3words has now introduced charging to convert to a lat-lon, rowmaps is no longer handling what3words strings.
search using the name of a place
You can type the name of the place (e.g. New Alresford)
into the box below.
You don't have to type all of the name and
the searching doesn't worry about capital letters.
For example,
instead of typing New Alresford
you could type alre
and it would find any place that has alre as part of its name.
search using a postcode, a grid reference, a lat,lon or a lon,lat
Or type into the following box
a postcode (e.g. SO24 9EP),
a grid reference
(e.g. SU582326,
SU58243255
or
SU5824332552),
a latitude,longitude
(e.g. 51.089333,-1.169766),
or
a longitude,latitude
(e.g. -1.169766,51.089333).
The searching doesn't worry about capital letters and spaces.
displaying the routes of rights of way on a mobile phone
If you wish to have a mapping app on your mobile phone that can display the routes of rights of way
and which requires no 3G/4G signal,
then read this web page:
installing the Organic Maps app on a phone and getting it to display rights of way.
the authorities that have released data
Rights of way data for the 136 authorities listed below
have been released with an open licence.
Barking and Dagenham, Barnsley, Bath and North East Somerset, Bedford, Bexley, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Blaenau Gwent, Bolton, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bracknell Forest, Bradford, Brecon Beacons National Park, Brighton and Hove (City of), Bristol (City of), Bromley, Buckinghamshire, Bury, Caerphilly, Calderdale, Cambridgeshire, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Central Bedfordshire, Ceredigion, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Conwy, Cornwall, Coventry, Cumbria, Denbighshire, Derby (City of), Derbyshire, Devon, Doncaster, Dorset, Dudley, Durham, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Essex, Flintshire, Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Gwynedd, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Hull (City of Kingston upon), Isle of Anglesey, Isle of Wight, Kent, Kirklees, Knowsley, Lake District National Park, Lancashire, Leeds, Leicester (City of), Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Liverpool, Manchester, Medway, Merthyr Tydfil, Milton Keynes, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newport, Norfolk, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, North Somerset, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Nottingham (City of), Nottinghamshire, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Peterborough (City of), Plymouth (City of), Portsmouth (City of), Powys, Reading, Redcar and Cleveland, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rochdale, Rotherham, Rutland, Salford, Sandwell, Sefton, Sheffield, Shropshire, Slough, Solihull, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, South Tyneside, Southampton (City of), St Helens, Staffordshire, Stockport, Stockton on Tees, Suffolk, Sunderland, Surrey, Sutton, Swansea, Swindon, Tameside, Telford and Wrekin, Thurrock, Torbay, Torfaen, Trafford, Vale of Glamorgan, Wakefield, Walsall, Warrington, Warwickshire, West Berkshire, West Northamptonshire, West Sussex, Wigan, Wiltshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wirral, Wokingham, Worcestershire, Wrexham and York
Many authorities originally released their data under terms equivalent to the Ordnance Survey Opendata Licence. In April 2015, the Ordnance Survey adopted the Open Government Licence. Here's a link to more details about the change in OS licensing.
Here's a link to a map showing the areas where data has been released. Please e-mail me if you know of any other authority that releases their data with an open licence.
credit
I'm grateful to the
streetmap.co.uk web site.
Behind the scenes, this web site uses many of its facilities.