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What does WMS mean?

April 26, 2017mean wms

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What does WMS mean?

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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) protocol defines a simple interface for web-based mapping applications. The WMS protocol is based on a simple query syntax for posting a request for the desired layers and region to the server, which returns a map as a standard image (GIF, PNG, JPG). The capabilities of a Web Map Service are described in an XML (Extensible Markup Language) document. Click on the WMS column label to access this document. With the information provided by the capabilities documents, here is an example of how to generate maps using NCDDC’s WMS connector. Example 1: Map of Louisiana and Mississippi coasts containing oil and gas pipelines, artificial reefs, and coral EFH boundaries.