http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Web_Map_Service 2026-04-20T08:58:44Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.19.2 http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Web_Map_Service&diff=17782&oldid=prev 2014-06-08T19:57:06Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Geospatial |released=1999 }} &#039;&#039;&#039;Web Map Service&#039;&#039;&#039; (WMS) is an openly-documented, standardized API (by the Open Geospatial Consorti...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Geospatial<br /> |released=1999<br /> }}<br /> '''Web Map Service''' (WMS) is an openly-documented, standardized API (by the Open Geospatial Consortium) for serving map data in response to geographically-specified requests. It defines particular requests and responses done using the [[HTTP]] protocol and returning both text data (usually in the form of [[XML]]) and graphical maps (which can be [[PNG]], [[GIF]], [[JPEG]], [[TIFF]], or other formats).<br /> <br /> == Specs ==<br /> * [http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1058 WMS 1.1.0 spec]<br /> * [http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1081&amp;version=1&amp;format=pdf WMS 1.1.1 spec]<br /> * [http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=14416 WMS 1.3.1 spec]<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * [http://mapserver.org/ MapServer]<br /> <br /> == Links ==<br /> * [[Wikipedia:Web Map Service|Wikipedia article]]<br /> * [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium site]</div>

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