Web Map Service

WMS
Developed byOGC
Initial release1999[1]
Type of formatContainer format
Container forXML, JPEG, PNG, others
Open format?Yes, with Copyright[2]
Websitewww.ogc.org/standards/wms Edit this at Wikidata

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "OGC Document Notice". Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  3. ^ "Web Map Service". Open Geospatial Consortium. Retrieved 2009-03-23.