Embed a live LiDAR map
Put Waystone's map of any parish or scheduled monument in England and Wales on your own site: the bare-earth LiDAR, live, with the RVT toolbox. Choose a place, copy the code, paste it into your page.
Choose a place to see its map here.
What the code does
It places Waystone's map in a frame on your page, at the place you chose, with the layer on. Readers can move the map and change the relief method; a key in the frame opens the full map. The frame loads when a reader scrolls to it, and inside it the page scrolls under the mouse wheel and one finger, so it never traps a reader.
Using it
- Free to embed. Keep the line under the map that names the place and links its page on Waystone.
- The data credits stay inside the frame, as the licences ask.
- The map needs a browser with WebGL, which almost every current browser has.
- Questions, or a layer you would like to embed that is not offered here: [email protected].
Sources
- Environment Agency, National LIDAR Programme and LIDAR Composite DTM (1 m), Open Government Licence. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right.
- Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government LiDAR (1 m), Open Government Licence. Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right.
- Historic England (2018). Using Airborne Lidar in Archaeological Survey: The Light Fantastic. Swindon: Historic England.
- Hesse, R. (2010). LiDAR-derived Local Relief Models: a new tool for archaeological prospection. Archaeological Prospection 17(2), 67–72.
- Zakšek, K., Oštir, K. and Kokalj, Ž. (2011). Sky-View Factor as a relief visualization technique. Remote Sensing 3(2), 398–415.
- Kokalj, Ž. and Somrak, M. (2019). Why not a single image? Combining visualizations to facilitate fieldwork and on-screen mapping. Remote Sensing 11(7), 747.
Last updated 2026-10-16.