WMS & WFS Google Maps + KML

Oxford Archaeology opened up their data with a Web Mapping Service

Online Archaeology
has a good couple articles on both services. In summary here:

• Web Mapping Service (WMS) produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information.

Live link for WMS
http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/GoogleMap/Pages/oa.htm

• Web Feature Service (WFS) is an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent call.

Live Link for WFS
http://www.andrewlarcombe.co.uk/index.php/oa


The future of Web Features/Map Services?
These services will have to make room for the KML (Keyhole Markup Langauge) format that seems to becoming a standard in its own right.

And the inclusion of this 'GGeoXML' integrating kml format with Google Maps API
hinted on the Google Maps API group in the next version of the API (2.76) has great potential in making thousands of features available to view to the world.
When available will have a post here on the mapperz blog about it.

Online Archaeology Google Map Geocodes UK Addresses

Online Archaeology
have integrated a UK Geocoder into the map search this means you can use it to find archaeology near your street.



This clean and very fast website - seamlessly uses Google Maps API, Google AJAX API and Local Search Address Geocoder.



By far the best website in the UK for Address Location searches on one page.

Excellent work SteveW (Webmaster) Mapperz glad to help out.