UK Public Rights of Way and Countryside Mapping
Useful links and tools for helping mappers capture and improve
mapping data about UK public rights of way and other countryside
features.
Tools and Analysis
- Public Rights of Way Progress
- A tool to help compare mapping progress of Rights of Way
against official data. Currently only covers a handful of counties.
- Designation Tagging Warnings
- A report on values of the designation tag, listing those
values that are close (in the Levenshtein edit distance sense) to
common values.
- OSGB 2 OSM
- Enter an OSGB grid reference, and be redirected to a marker on an
OSM map.
- MapThePaths
- Visualisation of OSM and official council data for Public Rights
of Way.
- Overpass Turbo Scripts
- Various scripts using Overpass Turbo to highlight
issues with Public Rights of Way:
- JOSM
Tagging Presets: EnglandWalesRightsOfWay
- A JOSM presets file implementing a hybrid version of the United
Kingdom Tagging Guidelines, at least the part about public
footpaths, bridleways, byways and permissive paths.
Map Visualisations
- Waymarked Hiking
Trails
- An OSM map overlay highlighting named walking/hiking routes.
- Coloured Rights of
Way
- An Overpass Turbo script to colour in rights of way in a given
area.
- Open Data Overlays
- OS GreenSpace and CRoW Access Land polygons displayed on top of an
OSM base map.
Information and Guidelines
- OSM
Wiki: UK Access Provisions
- Wiki page describing recommended tagging for Public Rights of Way
in England and Wales. See also
my unofficial
table of rights of way tagging.
- UK
2018 Q3 Project: Paths and Rights of Way
- Information and resources collected for the UK's Quarterly Mapping Project.
- Formats for prow_ref tagging
- A table of the different standardised formats recommended for use
in the prow_ref tag in OpenStreetMap.
- Advice for Requesting Rights of Way Documents from UK Councils
- Some personal advice on requesting copies of documents held by
local councils that may be useful for OSM mapping
- Advice for Requesting Rights of Way GIS
Data from UK Councils
- Some personal advice on requesting copies of documents held by
local councils that may be useful for OSM mapping
- Public
rights of way: landowner responsibilities
- Government guide for landowners who have public rights of way
crossing their land.
- Open access land: management, rights and responsibilities
- Government guide for landowners whose land is designated as Access Land.
Outdoor Basemap Styles
- A
Townsend Default Map
- Free Map
- Thunderforest Outdoors
Source Data
A list of which Councils have made available copies of their
Definitive Statements and GIS data can be found on
my Open Data page. Some files I am
hosting myself are listed below:
- Norfolk Definitive Statements
- PDF files containing the statements for each of parishes in the
county. Available for re-use in OSM under the Open Government
Licence.
- Suffolk Definitive Statements
- PDF files containing the statements for some of the parishes in
the county. Available for re-use in OSM under the Open Government
Licence.
- Worcestershire Definitive Statements
- PDF files for each of the 200-ish parishes and un-parished areas
in the county. Available for re-use in OSM under the Open Government
Licence.
Details
of Rights
of Way Cases that have been brought before the Planning Inspectorate.