Surveyors Report (FOI221105)

This Freedom of Information request asks for a copy of the surveyors report which provided the authority for adding a footpath to the map

Request for information - Ref no: FOI221105

February 17, 2023

Information request

Thank you for your email of 22 September 2022, requesting information from Ordnance Survey in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, as set out in the extract below:

Request for a copy of the surveyors report which provided the authority for adding a footpath to the map.

Our response

I confirm that Ordnance Survey does not hold the information you have requested.

The dotted black line you refer to in your request has been supplied by a third-party data supplier, Mapbox Streets, and as such we do not hold the information you have requested.

However, under the duty to provide information and assistance in accordance with section 16 of FOIA, we can provide the following information which may assist you in this matter.

OS use Mapbox Streets data to update features such as footpaths in OS Maps’ Standard Map Layer so that OS Map customers can see the paths included in the ‘snap-to-path’ feature of OS Maps. Mapbox provide a tool for errors to be reported here: https://www.mapbox.com/contribute/#/.

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Internal Review Officer
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Southampton
SO16 0AS

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