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2022-08-11-1251

GeoJSON files containing the public rights of way of Poole

The council of Poole have provided me with an ESRI shape file that contains the details of their public rights of way. This ESRI shape file seems to have been created on 12th March 2013.

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 ESRI shape file was made available by the council of Poole under terms equivalent to the Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence. When I e-mailed the Ordnance Survey about the councils that had, during the last few years, successfully obtained an exemption from the Public Sector Mapping Agreement and released their data under terms equivalent to the Ordnance Survey OpenData Licence, they replied All data exempted by Ordnance Survey is now covered by the Open Government Licence (OGL), which superseded its own OS OpenData licence in April 2015. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you say that it is public sector information released by the council of Poole under the Open Government Licence.

Elsewhere on this web site, there is a web page about how this web site provides the public rights of way of Poole 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:
PL||FOOTPATH 33
There are three parts to the name: "PL" (meaning "Poole"), the id of the parish/community and the id of the path within the parish/community.
The description will be something like:
Fo|PL:20|0.735|none|-1.89991|50.73366|-1.90888|50.74245|407159,92676|406525,93653
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 Poole;
GeoJSON file for bridleways in Poole;
GeoJSON file for restricted byways in Poole;
GeoJSON file for byways open to all traffic in Poole.

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 18W507Fo.json contains details about the Footpaths that are partly/wholly in the square that is west and north of -1.8 degrees longitude and 50.7 degrees latitude.
Here is a link to a zip file containing all the smaller GeoJSON files for Poole.

The latitude values for Poole range from 50.68 to 50.79. And the longitude values range from -2.02 to -1.89.