[Talk-GB] Open access land in England and Wales

[Mark Goodge]

On 28/02/2022 20:06, BD wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm reading "Country Walking" magazine and in here there's an article 
> about open access land and PRoW. In the past, there were a number of 
> posts regarding PRoW here at Talk-GB. I'm aware of 'map the path' tool. 
> However, I'd like to know if there's anything on OSM that would cover 
> the 'open access land'?
> 
> Is there any source for 'open access land' to be added to OSM? Has any 
> of open land been already mapped?

England:

https://data.gov.uk/dataset/fca67ba8-2900-47af-84ae-e7fb0dcb43fb/crow-act-2000-open-access-mapping-areas

Wales:

https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/inspire-nrw:NRW_OPEN_COUNTRY_2014

I haven't investigated further, but it looks as though both of those 
have polygon data available for download and reusable under the OGL.

Scotland is slightly different as there, land is open access by default 
and therefore doesn't need to be explicitly mapped.

Mark