Core Paths - Scotland

Every local authority and National Park authority (access authorities) in Scotland is required to draw up a plan for a system of paths (core paths) sufficient for the purpose of giving the public reasonable access throughout their area.

Core paths are paths, waterways or any other means of crossing land to facilitate, promote and manage the exercise of access rights under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, and are identified as such in access authority core paths plan.

There are, intentionally, no set physical standards for core paths. This means that core paths can physically be anything from a faint line across a field to a fully constructed path, track or pavement. The National Access Forum, Scottish Natural Heritage and Scottish Government are encouraging information to be surveyed and made publicly available, in a nationally-standardised form, so that the public will know what physical type of route they can expect. Government guidance is making core paths the priority for rolling out this national standardised grading system information, which is set out at http://www.pathsforall.org.uk/pfa/creating-paths/path-grading-system.html

 
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. Core Paths - Scotland. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b4d248b8-a612-473c-ae8e-567ff3af1a27

Simple

Alternate title
cpth
Date ( Revision )
2018-05-15
Identifier
www.spatialhub.scot / sh_cpth

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Maintenance and update frequency
annually Annually
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Transport networks
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Limitations on public access
Use limitation
Use of the data is available to any organisation that is a member of the OSMA (One Scotland Mapping Agreement) or any UK academic institution via Edina's subscription Digimap service. It is not currently commercially available.
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Transportation
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Reference system identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.9
Reference system identifier
EPSG / ETRS89 (EPSG:4258) / 7.9
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator (EPSG:3857) / 7.9
Distribution format
  • OGC:WMC (1.3.0 )

OnLine resource
http://www.spatialhub.scot/get-data/  
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Statement

This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub.

The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data:

- Lines are dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority.

- The minimum line length allowed in the data is 1 metre

- Checks for invalid geometry types

- The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees

- Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data

- Duplicate key names for lines are not removed

- Lines with no key names are not removed

- Checks for basic geometry i.e. self-intersection

- Where a line overlaps a local authority boundary (or any other input data) it is not altered.

- Where a line has a gap of up to 1m to another line, it is snapped to it.

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Metadata

File identifier
b4d248b8-a612-473c-ae8e-567ff3af1a27   XML
Metadata language
eng English
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-01-14
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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