the purpose of this web site Rights of way data for 149 authorities in England and Wales have been released with an open licence. This web site allows you to superimpose the routes of the rights of way of these authorities onto an underlying map. The map can be from the Ordnance Survey or OpenStreetMap. If you wish, you can ask for transport stops (such as bus stops) to be added to the map. The web site also has details about how you could include such a map on your own web page. And how you can build a route for a walk, run, etc., by selecting several rights of way and then outputting this route in KML or GPX. This web site also provides links to the original data, derived KML files, derived GPX files, derived CSV files and derived GeoJSON files. Changes to this web site (e.g., updates to an authority’s data) are posted to Bluesky and to @rowmaps and are also added to the tweets web page.

Some authorities update their data regularly (e.g., quarterly, annually) and I update www.rowmaps.com whenever I spot that this has happened. However, for most authorities I have to request an update. Although I try to do this annually, with some authorities I haven’t done this. The "small print" section of the web page that displays a map shows when the data was last updated.

If you wish to see a map showing the rights of way near to a particular place, type a place name, a postcode, a grid reference or a latitude-longitude pair into one of the boxes below. Then click the search button.

search using the name of a place You can type the name of the place (e.g. New Alresford) into the box below. You don’t have to type all of the name and the searching doesn’t worry about capital letters. For example, instead of typing New Alresford you could type alre and it would find any place that has alre as part of its name.

search using a postcode, a grid reference, a lat,lon or a lon,lat Or type into the following box a postcode (e.g. SO24 9EP), a grid reference (e.g. SU582326, SU58243255 or SU5824332552), a latitude,longitude (e.g. 51.089333,-1.169766), or a longitude,latitude (e.g. -1.169766,51.089333). The searching doesn’t worry about capital letters and spaces.

displaying the routes of rights of way on a mobile phone If you wish to have a mapping app on your mobile phone that can display the routes of rights of way and which requires no 3G/4G signal, then read this web page: installing the Organic Maps app on a phone and getting it to display rights of way.

the authorities that have released data Rights of way data for the 149 authorities listed below have been released with an open licence.

Barking and Dagenham, Barnsley, Bath and North East Somerset, Bedford, Bexley, Birmingham, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Blaenau Gwent, Bolton, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bracknell Forest, Bradford, Brecon Beacons National Park, Bridgend, Brighton and Hove (City of), Bristol (City of), Bromley, Buckinghamshire, Bury, Caerphilly, Calderdale, Cambridgeshire, Cardiff, Carmarthenshire, Central Bedfordshire, Ceredigion, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Conwy, Cornwall, Coventry, Cumbria, Darlington, Denbighshire, Derby (City of), Derbyshire, Devon, Doncaster, Dorset, Dudley, Durham, Ealing, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Essex, Flintshire, Gateshead, Gloucestershire, Gwynedd, Halton, Hampshire, Haringey, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Hull (City of Kingston upon), Isle of Anglesey, Isle of Wight, Kent, Kingston upon Thames, Kirklees, Knowsley, Lake District National Park, Lancashire, Leeds, Leicester (City of), Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Liverpool, Manchester, Medway, Merthyr Tydfil, Middlesbrough, Milton Keynes, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newport, Norfolk, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, North Somerset, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Nottingham (City of), Nottinghamshire, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Pembrokeshire, Peterborough (City of), Plymouth (City of), Portsmouth (City of), Powys, Reading, Redbridge, Redcar and Cleveland, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rochdale, Rotherham, Rutland, Salford, Sandwell, Sefton, Sheffield, Shropshire, Slough, Solihull, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, South Tyneside, Southampton (City of), St Helens, Staffordshire, Stockport, Stockton on Tees, Suffolk, Sunderland, Surrey, Sutton, Swansea, Swindon, Tameside, Telford and Wrekin, Thurrock, Torbay, Torfaen, Trafford, Vale of Glamorgan, Wakefield, Walsall, Waltham Forest, Warrington, Warwickshire, West Berkshire, West Northamptonshire, West Sussex, Westmorland and Furness, Wigan, Wiltshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wirral, Wokingham, Wolverhampton (City of), Worcestershire, Wrexham and York

Please e-mail me if you know of any other authority that releases their data with an open licence. My thanks to those that have already done this. Here’s a link to a map showing the areas where data has been released. Many authorities originally released their data under terms equivalent to the Ordnance Survey Opendata Licence. In April 2015, the Ordnance Survey adopted the Open Government Licence. Here’s a link to more details about the change in OS licensing.

credit I’m grateful to the streetmap.co.uk web site. Behind the scenes, this web site uses many of its facilities.