Case Study: Northumberland National Park achieves rapid, safe 66.2-mile route planning with Ordnance Survey

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Northumberland National Park (NNP) needed to plan a shortest, safest continuous route for volunteer David Wilson’s "Walk In The Park" — a non‑stop traverse of the park from its most northerly to southerly points across more than 1,050 km² while including key points of interest and supply access. Ordnance Survey supplied the mapping and tools for the project, including the OS Detailed Path Network (DPN), OS MasterMap, 1:25 000 Scale Colour Raster, OS Terrain 5 and the walkinthepark app.

NNP loaded the OS Detailed Path Network into PostGIS, built a routable network and used pgRouting to calculate and then refine the route (final distance 66.2 miles), and Ordnance Survey provided an iPhone with the walkinthepark app to track David on the NNP blog. The outcome: route decisions completed in seconds rather than days, a route that accounted for gradients and surface difficulty, successful public engagement via the app, Twitter and the blog, and a fully verified park crossing.

Northumberland National Park

David Wilson

Northumberland National Park