I've added a Wikipedia article layer to the map. It loads a limited number of points within the current viewport and reloads when you zoom in or move the map.

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Now that Oxford Archaeology have opened up a WMS as well as a WFS I thought I'd have a go at trying to get the data onto a Google Maps page.

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A new newsletter about the Online Archaeology Map has been sent to all subscribers.

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Got something to say about archaeology? You can blog about it in your own blog on Online Archaeology.

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Today I added the feed from Google Maps Mania to the RSS aggregator.

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You can see an aggregated version of the latest items from a large list of blogs and feeds here: http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/ArchaeologyNews/RSSAggregator/tabid/103/Default.aspx

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The Google Maps API is missing one important element for the UK - the ability to type in an address and then find that address on the map. This is known as geocoding: turning an address into map co-ordinates. So until there is a reliable geocoder for the UK in the Google Maps API I had to turn elsewhere.

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After a few tests with WFS and parsing the GML it looked like it put too much load on the client, so we tried a different approach. We loaded the WMS as normal and then captured the point where a user clicks and sent this point and other paramters back to MapServer as a GetFeatureInfo request.

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Big thanks to Stuart at LP Archaeology for giving me access to their MapServer so we can explore these things further.

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I've added a lot of map-related feeds to the aggregator.

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