Product supply

Please note that the October 2025 release was the final release of the OS Detailed Path Network product; more information about the product withdrawal timeline and the recommended product migration pathway is available from the End of Life Notice – Detailed Path Network page.

Available formats

The OS DPN product is available in the following formats:

• Data: Geography Markup Language (GML) v3.2 Simple Features, compressed using gzip

• Vector: GeoPackage file, zipped using gzip

• Vector: Vector tiles (MBTiles) file, zipped using gzip

• For information on how to open, use and understand a GeoPackage dataset, please refer to our ‘Getting Started with GeoPackage’ guide; the format's key features and benefits are also covered in that guide. Further detailed information on GeoPackage can be taken from the GeoPackage website.

• For information on how to install vector tiles (MBTiles) and the format's key features and benefits, please refer to our ‘Getting Started with Vector Tiles’ guide.

Product supply mechanism

The OS DPN product is supplied as an online download only. You can download data in various formats from the OS Data Hub.

File sizes

For GML and GeoPackage product formats, one file is supplied for each National Park (i.e. you will receive 15 files when ordering the product in one of these formats).

The vector tiles product format is supplied as a single file that contains all National Parks. Each file will contain up to three feature types.