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2022-08-11-1251

GeoJSON files containing the public rights of way of Bracknell Forest

The council of Bracknell Forest provide a web page from where you can download their public rights of way data in GEOJSON format. The steps for doing this are given in the next paragraph. There's a shortcut towards the middle of this web page that you can use to avoid all the steps.

On that web page, click on the link labelled Bracknell Forest Public Rights of Way that's in the "Data Links" section of that web page.
On the new web page, click on the link for the layer labelled GIS_PublicRightsOfWay (0).
On the new web page, click on the Query link that is given at the bottom of the web page.
On the new web page, there are a lot of boxes!!
In the first box which is labelled "Where", type
   1=1
About 12 boxes further down, there's a box labelled "Out Fields". In this box type
   OBJECTID,ROWName,Shape__Length,ROWNumber,ROWNo,ROWType,Parish,UniqueID,TRO
About another 6 boxes further down, there's a box labelled "Output Spatial Reference". In this box type
   4326
At the bottom of the screen, there's a menu labelled "Format", choose
   GEOJSON
from the drop down.
Then click on the button that is labelled "Query (GET)". That will take you to a web page that has the GEOJSON.

You can see the GEOJSON that's on this web page by clicking the "Raw Data" tab. And you can save it into a file using the "Save" button.

Shortcut: a quicker way of getting the GEOJSON web page is to use this URL.

Credit: I'm extremely grateful to the author of this web page who provided the info about what to put in the boxes.

The council also provides information about their public rights of way on an online map. Their map may use more up-to-date data.

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.

This web page indicates that the data is made available by the council of Bracknell Forest under 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 Bracknell Forest.

Elsewhere on this web site, there is a web page about how this web site provides the public rights of way of Bracknell Forest in KML format. That web page explains how I've augmented the basic KML with additional information.

I've converted this augmented KML into GeoJSON. Besides giving the longitudes and latitudes of the route of a public right of way, each entry in the GeoJSON also has a name and a description.
The name will be something like:
BC|WINKFIELD|5
There are three parts to the name: "BC" (meaning "Bracknell Forest"), the id of the parish/community and the id of the path within the parish/community.
The description will be something like:
Fo|BC:10|0.441|@No|-0.66674|51.45137|-0.67478|51.44743|492740,173330|492189,172882
This gives other information about the public right of way. First, there is a two letter code giving its type which is one of Fo (meaning Footpath), Br (meaning Bridleway), Re (meaning Restricted byway) and BO (meaning Byway open to all traffic). Following this code, there are a unique name, the length in miles, any additional information obtained from the data supplied by the authority (or none), the longitude of its first point, the latitude of its first point, the longitude of its last point, the latitude of its last point, the eastings and northings of its first point and the eastings and northings of its last point.

The following GeoJSON files are available:
GeoJSON file for footpaths in Bracknell Forest;
GeoJSON file for bridleways in Bracknell Forest;
GeoJSON file for restricted byways in Bracknell Forest;
GeoJSON file for byways open to all traffic in Bracknell Forest.

Because some of these GeoJSON files are large, the GeoJSON is also available in a large number of smaller files. Each smaller file has information about public rights of way that are in a square that is 0.1 degrees longitude wide and 0.1 degrees latitude high. For example, the file 06W514Fo.json contains details about the Footpaths that are partly/wholly in the square that is west and north of -0.6 degrees longitude and 51.4 degrees latitude.
Here is a link to a zip file containing all the smaller GeoJSON files for Bracknell Forest.

The latitude values for Bracknell Forest range from 51.33 to 51.46. And the longitude values range from -0.83 to -0.64.