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KML files containing the public rights of way of South Tyneside

The council of South Tyneside have provided me with a zip file that has four ESRI shape files that have the details of the public rights of way of South Tyneside. These ESRI shape files seem to have been created on 23rd August 2024.

An authority's Definitive Map is the authoritative source of their rights of way. The details of the public rights of way network contained in an authority's data are for information only, and are an interpretation of the Definitive Map, not the Definitive Map itself, and should not be relied on for determining the position or alignment of any public right of way. For legal purposes, an authority's data does not replace their Definitive Map. And changes may have been made to the Definitive Map that are not included in their data. The authority's data contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Attempting to view this data with more detail than 1:10000 may produce an inaccurate rendering of the route of a public right of way.

The council of South Tyneside have informed me that the ESRI shape files are made available under the terms of Open Government Licence v3.0. So it's possible for you to use this data provided you give the attribution that the data has been provided by the council of South Tyneside.

I have unzip the three ESRI shape files that have public rights of way into three KML files: KML file for footpaths, KML file for bridleways and KML file for restricted byways. The Council of South Tyneside say that they don't have any BOATs.

When producing the KML, I have used OSTN15 to transform OSGB36 to WGS64.

I have combined the data in these three KML files and converted this data into the basic KML format that is used by this web site for all authorities. For each public right of way, this basic KML format has the name of the authority (South Tyneside), a unique number within the authority for the public right of way, the name or number of the parish/community, the name or number of the public right of way, the type of the public right of way (i.e., footpath, bridleway, ...) and any additional information about the public right of way that I've obtained from the data supplied by the authority. Here is a link to the converted KML file for South Tyneside.

This KML file has been augmented with additional information. For each public right of way, the augmented format also includes its length (in miles), the longitude and latitude of its first point, the longitude and latitude of its last point, the eastings and northings of its first point and the eastings and northings of its last point. Here is a link to the augmented KML file for South Tyneside.

This web site also provides information about the public rights of way of South Tyneside in GPX format, in CSV format and in GeoJSON format.