Strategy and Challenge
Robert Whittaker
The Information Management Service
What Do They Know? Website
Shire Hall
Westgate Street
GLOUCESTER
GL1 2TG
Telephone 01452
Please ask for Steve Tilling
324000
Email xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Our ref: 8785511
Your ref:
Date: 2 August 2018
Dear Mr Whittaker
I am pleased to provide a response to your request for information, received on
27 June 2018:
Q1) The digitised version / working copy of your Definitive Map of Public
Rights of Way, e.g. as used to show the routes in the online map at
https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/roads-parking-and-rights-of-way/public-
rights-of-way/rights-of-way-online-map/ . My preferred format for this GIS data
would be one of KML, GeoJSON, MapInfo or Shapefile. (I realise that this data
is not the actual Definitive Map, but just an unofficial representation of it,
which may contain errors. But that is fine for my purposes.)
Q2) Your Definitive Statements of Public Rights of Way, assuming these are
held in digital form (either scanned copies or native digital versions). I would
prefer the information in a re-usable (computer readable) format. If the full
Statement information is already contained in the GIS data supplied above,
then that will satisfy this part of the request, and there is no need to provide
anything separately.
Q3) Secondly, under the Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations, I
would like to request permission to re-use the information above under the
Open Government Licence v3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-
government-licence/version/3/ . The purposes for which the information is to
be re-used are: (a) to help improve the mapping of Rights of Way in
OpenStreetMap, and (b) to convert the datasets to a more convenient format,
and then make them available for others to re-use under an open licence.
Gloucestershire County Council Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester. GL1 2TG
I am writing to inform you that we have searched our records and some of the
information you requested is not held by Gloucestershire County Council. Please see
our response to Q2 below.
Some information however is available, I have detailed below the information:
Q1) I understand that you have been supplied this information in a digitised
format by our ICT Programme Support Team.
Q2) The Definitive Statements of Public Rights of Way are not held in digitised
form.
Q3) I understand the re-use permission was also granted when the digitised
data was supplied.
If you are unhappy with my response, you can complain or ask for a review of your
request by writing to us within 40 working days of receiving this response. The full
procedure is on our website at
http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/foi. This should be
addressed to:
Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester. GL1 2TG
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
We would like to hear your views on our service. If you’d like to tell us how we did,
you can complete our feedback form online at
http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/foifeedback
I will now close your request as of this date.
Yours faithfully
Steve Tilling
Information Requests Officer
Gloucestershire County Council Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester. GL1 2TG