OS Detailed Path Network
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.
Path and track routing dataset
OS Detailed Path Network gives you the data attribution you need to suggest routes tailored to activities. This might be an easy, one-hour walk on man-made surfaces, or a 15mile, circular cycle ride from a car park.
Suggest routes users will love
Create off-road navigation apps, build exciting navigation websites and apps that help your users find great routes and stay on the right track.
Responsible Routing
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.
Optimised 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.
Created with local experts
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.
How to get this product
You can try out a sample of OS Detailed Path Network data for evaluation and testing through the Detailed Path Network product page of the OS website. Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.
Other ways to access this data
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. Find out more about our OS API platform here to unlock access to rich geospatial data and integrate OS data and services into your applications.
Access to OS Detailed 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 NGD Transport Theme data more accessible and easier to use with databases and GIS software Find out more about NGD data here to discover how to access OS NGD and what's available to users.
What's next?
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