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2022-08-11-1251

KML files containing the public rights of way of Medway

The council of Medway have provided me with a zip file that has MapInfo files that has the details of their public rights of way. The MapInfo files seem to have been created on 1st December 2021. When I requested an update both in December 2022 and in February 2024 I was informed that "the information that we would provide to you has not changed since we last provided it".

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 council of Medway have informed me that the MapInfo files are made available 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 Medway.

I have transformed the MapInfo files into a KML file.

When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.

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 (Medway), 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 Medway.

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 Medway.

This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of Medway in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.