Downloading the data

The OS Detailed Path Network product is available for the 15 National Park areas within Great Britain. The dataset is released in three formats: Geography Markup Language (GML), GeoPackage and vector tiles. All formats are compressed into a regular zip file (.ZIP).

Before loading the data, you will need to unzip it by using any of the regular zip programs available or via the facility within the Windows 10 operating system.

As the areas covered by the National Parks differ in size, the downloads in turn vary in size, from 11MB for the Lake District National Park to around 2MB for the Northumberland National Park.

The data is available as download only, and there are no plans for the data to be made available on hard media.

This getting started guide focuses solely on using the product in GML format. For guidance on using the product in GeoPackage or vector tiles formats, please see the following two getting started guides, which are available on the OS website:

• Getting Started with GeoPackage guide.

• Getting Started with Vector Tiles guide.

Downloading the schema (GML format only)

To use the GML data format, some Geographic Information Systems (GIS) may need third-party data translation software to make the data usable within their GI application. To help with this, we provide a downloadable XSD schema on the OS Detailed Path Network Product Support page on our website.

1. Go to the OS Detailed Path Network Product Support page on the OS website.

2. Find the Product schema (XML) link on the page (it is under the Getting started section which is located at the top of the page):

3. You can either:

   • Right-click on the link and Save link as to a location of your choice or

   • Click the link to open the schema online, then copy and save the content into a text editor

Screenshot of the OS Detailed Path Network Product Support page on the OS website. A red box highlights where the Product schema (XML) link can be found on the right hand side of the page.