| Developed by | OGC |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1999[1] |
| Type of format | Container format |
| Container for | XML, JPEG, PNG, others |
| Open format? | Yes, with Copyright[2] |
| Website | www |
A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999 for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet.[1] These images are typically produced by a map server from data provided by a GIS database.[3]
- ^ a b Scharl, Arno; Klaus Tochtermann (2007). The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society. Springer. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-84628-826-5.
- ^ "OGC Document Notice". Retrieved 2 February 2011.
- ^ "Web Map Service". Open Geospatial Consortium. Retrieved 2009-03-23.