Web Map Service

WMS
Developed byOGC
Initial release1999
Type of formatContainer format
Container forXML, JPEG, PNG, others
Open format?Yes, with Copyright
Websitewww.ogc.org/standards/wms

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. These images are typically produced by a map server from data provided by a GIS database.

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