7th April 2007, 07:34 AM
The data is served both WFS/WMS, and yes, more information will become available per point served, as well as more points. We will shortly put out our own webGIS interface with OpenLayers, and longer term with Mapguide, to extend the capabilities.
OA don't have an OS licence suitable for general use - however, if everyone wants to club together and buy a full OS single machine licence (we calculate at about £28k), we would happily serve that to the Internet from a server (while serving our own data from another and the webGIS interfaces from yet others, etc.) as the licence terms currently allow this. Anyone for full OS maps as part of their mash-up?
@KevinW: no, this was not a commercial decision, so much as a philosophical/charitable/scientific one. All the work on mapserving so far has been for external public use, not an extension of internal work. It is an offshoot of the open archaeology concept: open standards because we must preserve the record, open source because of so many excellent reasons, as well as the simple fact it is the only way that archaeology will ever get software designed for purpose, open data because it is an essential element of scientific investigation.
If the philosophies expressed at
http://openarchaeology.net
just isn't clear enough, let me know and I'll happily expand on them. At great length
.
Chris
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Strictly my views, which occasionally may also be those of my employer!
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OA don't have an OS licence suitable for general use - however, if everyone wants to club together and buy a full OS single machine licence (we calculate at about £28k), we would happily serve that to the Internet from a server (while serving our own data from another and the webGIS interfaces from yet others, etc.) as the licence terms currently allow this. Anyone for full OS maps as part of their mash-up?
@KevinW: no, this was not a commercial decision, so much as a philosophical/charitable/scientific one. All the work on mapserving so far has been for external public use, not an extension of internal work. It is an offshoot of the open archaeology concept: open standards because we must preserve the record, open source because of so many excellent reasons, as well as the simple fact it is the only way that archaeology will ever get software designed for purpose, open data because it is an essential element of scientific investigation.
If the philosophies expressed at
http://openarchaeology.net
just isn't clear enough, let me know and I'll happily expand on them. At great length
.Chris
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Strictly my views, which occasionally may also be those of my employer!
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