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 focusses solely on using the product in GML format.
For information on how to open, use and understand a GeoPackage dataset, please refer to our ‘Getting Started with GeoPackage’ 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.
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 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.
OS Detailed Path Network is a derived product that has been designed with consideration of the 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 focusses solely on using the product in GML format. For guidance on using the product in GeoPackage format, please see our .
This getting started guide focusses solely on using the product in GML format. For guidance on using the product in vector tiles format, please see our .
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.