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GeoJSON files containing the public rights of way of Wigan |
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The council of Wigan provides a web page from where you can download data about their public rights of way. The dataset labelled Public Rights of Way has details of their Footpaths and the dataset labelled Bridleways has details of their Bridleways. if you click on either of these you will be presented with a web page showing a map of the Footpaths/Bridleways. On that web page, click on "View Full Details". Doing that will take you to this web page for Footpaths or to this web page for Bridleways. On either of these new web pages click on "Download". You will then get a new menu on the left which enables you to download the data about Footpaths/Bridleways in various formats. Here are links to download the Footpaths data in GML32 format and the Bridleways data in GML32 format. The Council also provides information about public rights of way on its "public rights of way map". You can see this map by clicking a link on this web page. 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. The "Custom License" links on this web page and this web page say the datasets are made available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you give an attribution. Elsewhere on this web site, there is a web page about how this web site provides the public rights of way of Wigan 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 following GeoJSON files are available:
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 24W534Fo.json
contains details about the Footpaths that are partly/wholly in the
square that is west and north of -2.4 degrees longitude
and 53.4 degrees latitude.
The latitude values for Wigan range from 53.44 to 53.6. And the longitude values range from -2.75 to -2.41. |