Web Feature Services

The Web Feature Services (WFS) interface is provided by Geoserver, and the GetCapabilities URL can be found at the following URL:

http://lancasteruadgeo.oxfordarchaeology.com/geoserver/uad/wfs?service=WFS&version=1.1.0&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 available output formats are listed in the GetCapabilities response.

An example request, to download the mons_point layer in excel format would be as follows:

 http://lancasteruadgeo.oxfordarchaeology.com/geoserver/uad/ows?service=WFS&version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=uad:mons_points&outputFormat=excel

The following layers are available:

• cellars: point data of Lancaster Buildings showing presence or absence of cellars
• studyarea: study area boundary of Lancaster Urban Archaeological Database project
• listed_polys: polygon boundaries of listed buildings
• event_points: point dataset representing historic or archaeological events
• event_polys: polygon dataset representing the outline of events such as archaeological digs
• mons_point: point dataset representing historic or archaeological monuments
• monspres_polys: polygon dataset representing definite monument outlines, eg extant or exposed by archaeological events
• monsint_polys: proposed outlines of monuments based on information from archaeological research, events and other information
• geophys: contour lines from geophysical survey