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2022-08-11-1251
KML 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.
I have transformed the GEOJSON into a KML file.
I have converted this KML file into the basic format that is used by this web site for all authorities. For each public right of way, this basic format has the name of the authority (Bracknell Forest), a unique number within the authority for the public right of way, the name or number of the parish/community, the name or number of the public right of way, the type of the public right of way (i.e., footpath, bridleway, ...) and any additional information about the public right of way that I've obtained from the data supplied by the authority. Here is a link to the converted KML file for Bracknell Forest.
This KML file has been augmented with additional information. For each public right of way, the augmented format also includes its length (in miles), the longitude and latitude of its first point, the longitude and latitude of its last point, the eastings and northings of its first point and the eastings and northings of its last point. Here is a link to the augmented KML file for Bracknell Forest.
This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Bracknell Forest in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.