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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.
ArcIMS (standing for Arc Internet Map Server) is a Web Map Server produced by Esri accessible through a web browser. It is a GIS that is designed to serve maps across the Internet. Sometimes these maps are just static images allowing simple panning and zooming, while others are more complex pages.
Officially supported web browsers IE7+, Firefox 2.0.0.8+, Safari 3+, Mozilla 1.7+, Opera 8.02+, Google Chrome 1+ ... via Android Maps app, upcoming feature for full ...
Géoportail - government run public service mapping, covers the whole French territory; ViaMichelin - World maps, city maps, driving directions, Michelin-starred restaurants, hotel booking, traffic news and weather forecast with ViaMichelin. Germany "Geoportal.de", by the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). Hong Kong
Unlike the OGC Web Map Service (WMS), which portrays spatial data as static, server-rendered images (maps), the Web Coverage Service delivers underlying data values along with their detailed descriptions. This enables a rich syntax for queries against the data and returns information with its original semantics, rather than just pictures ...
MapServer has had an important role in Web mapping history. The following is a summary of its evolution: 1994: UMN awarded with NASA/ForNet funding to support web-based delivery of forestry data. [6] 1997-07: MapServer 1.0, Developed as Part of the NASA ForNet Project. Grew out of the need to deliver remote sensing data across the web for ...
WMS – Web Map Service: provides map images; WMTS – Web Map Tile Service: provides map image tiles; WPS – Web Processing Service: remote processing service; Simple Features Access, first approved in 1999, was the first full OGC Standard. Shortly after, a series of standards based on the HTTP web services paradigm for message-based ...
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