Geospatial Web Map Services

Reference document

Title: Geospatial Web Map Services

Description: The Geospatial Web Map Services provide a HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images. Typical image formats for the map result are PNG, JPEG, GIF or SVG. There are open source WMS Servers such as UMN Mapserver and Mapnik. Commercial alternatives exist from most commercial GIS vendors, such as ESRI ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, GeoClip, Intergraph Geomedia WebMap, and others.

Level: 7

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Parent: Geospatial Services

Usage

Service Profiles

The following CIO serviceprofiles references this taxonomy node. For each serviceprofile, we list the standards which will be used to implement the functionality described in the taxonomy node:

NISP BSSP for Geospatial Web Map Services
- OpenGIS Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification (02-070:2002)
- OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification (06-042:2006)
FMN Spiral 3.0 Web Map Service Profile
- OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification (06-042:2006)
Web Map Service Profile
- Defence Geospatial Web Services (AGeoP-26 Ed A Ver 1:2020)
- OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification (06-042:2006)
Web Map Service Profile
- Service Interface for Web Map Service and Web Map Tile Service ()
- OpenGIS Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification (06-042:2006)