The Web-Mapping Services (WMS) interface is supplied by a geoserver instance and can be reached at the following GetCapabilities URL:
http://lancasteruadgeo.oxfordarchaeology.com/geoserver/uad/wms?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
This outputs data in the following coordinate systems:
- EPSG:27700 (British National Grid)
- EPSG:4326 (Global Latitude/Longitude)
- EPSG:900913 (Spherical Mercator)
The following modern base maps are available:
- osopen: Ordnance Survey, based on Vector Map District
- osopenbw: Ordnance Survey grayscale, based on Vector Map District
- osopenraster: Ordnance Survey, based on Street View
- osopenrasterbw: Ordnance Survey grayscale, based on Street View
The following historic base maps are available:
- Docton1684: Kenneth Docton's map of Lancaster, 1684
- Mackreth1778: Stephen Mackreth's "Plan of the town of Lancaster", 1778
- Clarke1807: Christopher Clark's "A plan of the town of Lancaster", 1807
- Baines1824: Edward Baines' "Plan of Lancaster", 1824
- OS_1_25: Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 25 inch, 1893
There is also a small area of Geophysical survey available, which is very detailed line data but has no attributes, so may work better as WMS:
- geophys
LIDAR data is available as both unprocessed (with buildings) and unprocessed (without buildings) and in 25cm and 2m resolution:
- lidar_processed_25cm
- lidar_processed_2m
- lidar_unprocessed_25cm
- lidar_unprocessed_2m
Reference on using WMS can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service
A sample GetMap request is as follows (use the GetCapabilities request to find out the available layers and output formats):
http://lancasteruadgeo.oxfordarchaeology.com/geoserver/uad/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=uad:Clarke1807&styles=&bbox=347195.2852705703,460963.365584321,348158.27652011556,462471.0608549123&width=327&height=512&srs=EPSG:27700&format=image%2Fjpeg
NOTE: if you experience problems displaying the base maps, change the request to use WMS version 1.1.0 rather than 1.3.0