The map has had a major overhaul which includes a lot of new functionality. The reasons for the overhaul were: a lot of the files were bloated, which caused slow download speeds; the interface was a little sloppy; there was limited area for extensions in the old system.

I just spent the day tidying up the site and moving things around a bit. The new look has settled in fine and I'll be adding more sections soon.

Now that Online Archaeology has been given a new look I'm concentrating on making the map data more accessible. I now have a reusable mapping component which means I can add maps anywhere on the site.

This is something I've been working on for a while and I'm pleased to announce that it's now up and running. The Archaeology RSS Reader is a collection of feeds all viewable in the same interface.

I just added a new photo collection of Montgomery Castle in Powys. This was a strategically important castle on the Welsh borders.

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Here are some details from the ESRI Archaeology and GIS newsletter.

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A new training course for archaeology and GIS is being run by Achill Archaeology Field School.

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I just discovered that PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme) have opened up a basic API to search their data and return spatial results - great stuff!

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For those that don't already know Google have finally added the UK to their geocoding service. I don't know what has changed as far as the Post Office is concerned but this is good news for all UK developers using Google Maps API.

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Do you use an RSS reader and wish you could just be emailed when new items are added? This is what drove me to write my own RSS email alerting system. Anyone can subscribe to any RSS feed via Online Archaeology and receive emails when the RSS is updated.

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