OS Detailed Path Network
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OS Detailed Path Network is a fully-connected, heighted path network covering Britain’s National Parks. Create off-road navigation apps, build exciting navigation websites and apps that help your users find great routes and stay on the right track.
OS Detailed Path Network gives you the data attribution you need to suggest routes tailored to activities; this might be an easy, 1-hour walk on man-made surfaces, or a 15mile, circular cycle ride from a car park.
Create off-road navigation apps and build exciting navigation websites and apps that help your users find great routes and stay on the right track.
For National Parks stakeholders, apps and websites that draw on this data will help promote the responsible use of your paths, trails and cycle routes.
As a member of the Emergency Services, if your navigation devices use this data, you'll see how steep the climb to an incident will be, so you can choose the best route.
OS Detailed Path Network is the first OS path and track network product for the rural environment. The product has been created and tested by OS with input from local area specialists to ensure the product reflects what's on the ground.
Access to this product is free for PSGA (Public Sector Geospatial Agreement) Members. You can check if your organisation is a member of the PSGA on the OS website.
The Detailed Path Network product page on the OS website has advice on how to get the product for businesses, developers, OS Partners and PSGA Members (i.e. government and the public sector).
Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.
You can download sample data for the product for free from the OS Data Hub. The sample data is available in GML 3.2 format and covers one area (Dartmoor).
OS Detailed Path Network data is available from our OS Features API, providing access to detailed geometries and rich attribution of individual features using an interoperable standard that's compatible with most GIS software and web mapping libraries. Visit the OS API docs site to unlock programmatic access to rich geospatial data and integrate OS data and services into your applications
Access to OS path data is also available through the OS NGD Transport Theme, providing data that is interoperable with other OS NGD themes, improved data structures, and a data schema designed to be easier to use and interrogate. Users may find OS NGD Transport Theme data more accessible and easier to use with databases and GIS software. Visit the OS NGD docs site to discover how to access the OS NGD and learn what's available to users.
To access additional documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:
