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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 https://www.pathsforall.org.uk/resources/resource/the-path-managers-guide-to-grading
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Identification info
- Alternative title
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cpth
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2025-04-24
- Identifier
- www.spatialhub.scot / sh_cpth
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Transport networks
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Transportation
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- End
- 2017-01-09
Temporal extent
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version OGC:WMC
1.3.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/core_paths-is Core Paths - Scotland
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.spatialdata.gov.scot:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b4d248b8-a612-473c-ae8e-567ff3af1a27/formatters/xml EDINA Digimap Service
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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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.
Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details. spatialhub@improvementservice.org Please contact spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk for more details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- b4d248b8-a612-473c-ae8e-567ff3af1a27 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-04-24T13:34:16.277Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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The Improvement Service
- Position name
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Spatial Hub Custodian
- Voice
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01506 282012
- City
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Livingston
- Administrative area
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West Lothian
- Postal code
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EH54 6AX
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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spatialhub@improvementservice.org spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk
- Role
- Point of contact