OS MasterMap Highways Network – Paths
A path network dataset for Great Britain showing who is responsible for all the footpaths through towns and cities. The dataset helps you understand how people connect to towns and cities around them. You will see the true time it takes for the citizen to access existing services – as well as the new services required in the community.
Optimised navigation
Make more informed decisions about best mode of transport to deliver your package. Get an understanding of the entire navigable network and you could end up squeezing more deliveries into your day.
Deeper path insights
Want to find out where best to place your assets? Get another aspect with information about the authoritative background of a path, as well as any obstructions you might encounter along the route.
Changing travel behaviours
By making the path network better known, you can encourage healthier alternatives to car travel. Use to maintain paths more effectively, and let mobile navigation apps deliver suggested routes to users on the move.
Comprehensive and definite
OS MasterMap Highways Network – Paths is a collection of data from authoritative sources who manage and maintain the Path network across Great Britain. This includes OS path network geometry and features the local highways and roads authorities’ name, numbering and maintenance responsibility information.
Linking streets to homes and infrastructure
Thanks to the Unique Street Reference Number (USRN), this data links to AddressBase. So, you can search for or navigate to an address, improve consultation with residents about roadworks, and identify installations like electricity substations
Optimise walking and cycling
By improving the path network and making it better known, you can encourage healthier alternatives to car travel. Paths data helps local authorities maintain paths more effectively, and it lets mobile navigation apps deliver suggested routes to users on the move.
How to get this product
Access to this product is free for Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) Members. Find out if you are a PSGA Member or download a sample of OS MasterMap Highways Network – Paths data by accessing the product page of the OS website, which has links to all of the relevant resources. Alternatively, you can try out the full product by applying for a Data Exploration license.
Visualise OS MasterMap Highways Network – Paths data online
This product is available to try out online using one of our three sets of sample data (Exeter, Newport and Inverness) through the OS MasterMap Product Viewer:
Other ways to access this data
OS MasterMap Highways Network data is available through our OS Features API, providing location-based insights combining topography data with buildings, transport, and water layer data to create detailed datasets with a high degree of accuracy. 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 MasterMap Highways Network 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 simple 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?
To access additional documentation and resources relating to this product, please refer to the following:
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