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:
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.
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):
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
This section provides basic steps on loading the OS Detailed Path Network data into some common GI applications.
General information about using GIS with OS data is available on the Using GIS software page on the OS website.
This getting started guide provides instructions for using OS Detailed Path Network in different software applications. Users with limited technical knowledge will be able to follow this guide.
The OS Detailed Path Network product is a topologically connected link and node network for roads, tracks, paths and rights of way within the National Parks of Great Britain. The product has been created from a number of existing Ordnance Survey data sources, including OS MasterMap Topography Layer, OS MasterMap Highways Network, 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster, OS Terrain 5 and OS Terrain 50. The data is intended to provide sufficient detail for routing pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders when using mobile devices, with a typical positional accuracy of 10m.
The OS Detailed Path Network dataset was originally released in 2015. It is currently updated on an annual basis and coverage is restricted to the National Park areas of Great Britain. More information about the product, along with links to support documents, can be found on the OS Detailed Path Network Product Support page on the OS website.
OS Detailed Path Network is a derived product that has been designed with consideration of the INSPIRE Transport Networks Data Specification, although INSPIRE does not apply to off road transport. Due to the process of deriving OS Detailed Path Network, feature instances and their identifiers will be regenerated at each data refresh.
This getting started guide focuses solely on using the product in GML format. For guidance on using the product in GeoPackage format, please see the Getting Started with GeoPackage guide in the getting started documentation.
This getting started guide focuses solely on using the product in GML format. For guidance on using the product in vector tiles format, please see the Getting Started with Vector Tiles guide in the getting started documentation.
Throughout this document, we reference files or documents as part of your 'Getting Started' instructions. These include: