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</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="padding-bottom: 0.15em;background-color:#e0e0e0;">WMS</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;">Developed by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><a href="Open_Geospatial_Consortium" title="Open Geospatial Consortium">OGC</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;">1999<sup id="cite_ref-release_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-release-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;">Type of format</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><a href="Container_format_(digital)" class="mw-redirect" title="Container format (digital)">Container format</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;"><a href="Container_format" title="Container format">Container for</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><a href="XML" title="XML">XML</a>, <a href="JPEG" title="JPEG">JPEG</a>, <a href="Portable_Network_Graphics" class="mw-redirect" title="Portable Network Graphics">PNG</a>, others</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;"><span class="nowrap"><a href="Open_file_format" title="Open file format">Open format</a>?</span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;">Yes, with Copyright<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height: 1.2; padding-right: 0.65em;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.35;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms">www<wbr>.ogc<wbr>.org<wbr>/standards<wbr>/wms</a></span> </td></tr></tbody></table>
<p>A <b>Web Map Service</b> (<b>WMS</b>) is a standard protocol developed by the <a href="Open_Geospatial_Consortium" title="Open Geospatial Consortium">Open Geospatial Consortium</a> in 1999 for serving <a href="Georeference" class="mw-redirect" title="Georeference">georeferenced</a> map images over the Internet.<sup id="cite_ref-release_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-release-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These images are typically produced by a <a href="Mapping_server" class="mw-redirect" title="Mapping server">map server</a> from data provided by a <a href="Geographic_Information_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographic Information System">GIS</a> database.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>The <a href="Open_Geospatial_Consortium" title="Open Geospatial Consortium">Open Geospatial Consortium</a> (OGC) became involved in developing standards for web mapping after a paper was published in 1997 by Allan Doyle, outlining a "WWW Mapping Framework".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The OGC established a task force to come up with a strategy,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and organized the "Web Mapping Testbed" initiative, inviting pilot web mapping projects that built upon ideas by Doyle and the OGC task force. Results of the pilot projects were demonstrated in September 1999, and a second phase of pilot projects ended in April 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The Open Geospatial Consortium released WMS version 1.0.0 in April 2000,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> followed by version 1.1.0 in June 2001,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and version 1.1.1 in January 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The OGC released WMS version 1.3.0 in January 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Requests">Requests</h2></div>
<p>WMS specifies a number of different request types, two of which are required by any WMS server:<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>GetCapabilities – returns parameters about the WMS (such as map image format and WMS version compatibility) and the available layers (map bounding box, coordinate reference systems, <a href="Uniform_resource_identifier" class="mw-redirect" title="Uniform resource identifier">URI</a> of the data and whether the layer is mostly opaque or not)</li>
<li>GetMap – returns a map image. Parameters include: width and height of the map, coordinate reference system, rendering style, image format</li></ul>
<p>Request types that WMS providers may optionally support include:
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<ul><li>GetFeatureInfo – if a layer is marked as 'queryable' then you can request data about a coordinate of the map image.</li>
<li>DescribeLayer – returns the feature types of the specified layer or layers, which can be further described using <a href="Web_Feature_Service" title="Web Feature Service">WFS</a> or <a href="Web_Coverage_Service" title="Web Coverage Service">WCS</a> requests. This request is dependent on the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of WMS.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>GetLegendGraphic – returns an image of the map's legend image, giving a visual guide to map elements.</li></ul>
<p>All communication is served through <a href="HTTP" title="HTTP">HTTP</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Map_image">Map image</h2></div>
<p>A WMS server usually serves the map in a <a href="Bitmap" title="Bitmap">bitmap</a> format, e.g. PNG, GIF, JPEG, etc. In addition, <a href="Vector_graphics" title="Vector graphics">vector graphics</a> can be included, such as points, lines, curves and text, expressed in <a href="Scalable_Vector_Graphics" class="mw-redirect" title="Scalable Vector Graphics">SVG</a> or <a href="WebCGM" class="mw-redirect" title="WebCGM">WebCGM</a> format.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Software">Software</h2></div>
<p><a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">Open source</a> <a href="Software" title="Software">software</a> that provide web map services capability include:
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<ul><li><a href="Deegree" class="mw-redirect" title="Deegree">deegree</a></li>
<li><a href="GeoServer" title="GeoServer">GeoServer</a></li>
<li><a href="MapServer" title="MapServer">MapServer</a></li>
<li><a href="MapGuide_Open_Source" title="MapGuide Open Source">MapGuide Open Source</a></li>
<li><a href="QGIS" title="QGIS">QGIS</a> Server</li></ul>
<p>Proprietary server software that allow providing web map services include:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="ArcGIS_Server" title="ArcGIS Server">ArcGIS Server</a></li>
<li><a href="ArcIMS" title="ArcIMS">ArcIMS</a></li>
<li>Cubeserv from Terrapixel</li>
<li>GeoWebPublisher from <a href="Bentley_Systems" title="Bentley Systems">Bentley Systems</a></li>
<li>GeognoSIS from <a href="Cadcorp" title="Cadcorp">Cadcorp</a></li>
<li><a href="GeoMedia" title="GeoMedia">GeoMedia</a></li>
<li><a href="Oracle_Corporation" title="Oracle Corporation">Oracle</a> MapViewer</li>
<li>SIAS (<a href="Smallworld" title="Smallworld">Smallworld</a> Internet Application Server) from <a href="GE_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="GE Energy">GE Energy</a></li>
<li><a href="Autodesk" title="Autodesk">Autodesk</a>'s Infrastructure Map Server</li>
<li><a href="Manifold_System" title="Manifold System">Manifold System</a></li>
<li><a href="MapTiler" title="MapTiler">MapTiler Server</a></li>
<li><a href="Luciad" title="Luciad">Luciad</a>'s LuciadLightspeed and LuciadFusion products<sup id="cite_ref-Luciad_solutions_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Luciad_solutions-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p>Open source standalone (client side) software that allow viewing web map services include:
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<ul><li><a href="Marble_(software)" title="Marble (software)">Marble</a></li></ul>
<p>Proprietary standalone (client side) software that allow viewing web map services include:
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<ul><li><a href="Google_Earth" title="Google Earth">Google Earth</a></li>
<li><a href="Esri" title="Esri">Esri</a> <a href="ArcGIS" title="ArcGIS">ArcGIS</a> & ArcGIS Explorer</li>
<li><a href="Global_Mapper" title="Global Mapper">Global Mapper</a></li>
<li><a href="Kongsberg_Gallium_Ltd." class="mw-redirect" title="Kongsberg Gallium Ltd.">Kongsberg Gallium Ltd.</a> InterVIEW / InterMAPhics</li>
<li><a href="Luciad" title="Luciad">Luciad</a>'s LuciadLightspeed, LuciadRIA and LuciadMobile products<sup id="cite_ref-Luciad_solutions_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Luciad_solutions-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p>WMS is a widely supported format for maps and GIS data accessed via the Internet and loaded into client side GIS software. Major commercial GIS and mapping software that support WMS include:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="Autodesk" title="Autodesk">Autodesk</a>'s Map 3D and Civil 3D products</li>
<li><a href="Bentley_Systems" title="Bentley Systems">Bentley Systems</a>' MicroStation, Bentley Map, desktop and server based GIS products</li>
<li><a href="Cadcorp" title="Cadcorp">Cadcorp</a> SIS product suite</li>
<li><a href="D3.js" title="D3.js">D3.js</a></li>
<li><a href="Environmental_Systems_Research_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental Systems Research Institute">ESRI</a>'s <a href="ArcGIS" title="ArcGIS">ArcGIS</a> products</li>
<li><a href="GeoMedia" title="GeoMedia">GeoMedia</a></li>
<li><a href="Global_Mapper" title="Global Mapper">Global Mapper</a></li>
<li><a href="Kinetica_(software)" title="Kinetica (software)">Kinetica</a></li>
<li><a href="Manifold_System" title="Manifold System">Manifold System</a></li>
<li><a href="MapInfo_Professional" class="mw-redirect" title="MapInfo Professional">MapInfo Professional</a></li>
<li><a href="Maptitude" title="Maptitude">Maptitude</a> Mapping Software</li>
<li><a href="MATLAB" title="MATLAB">MATLAB</a> and Mapping Toolbox</li>
<li><a href="Qlik_Sense" class="mw-redirect" title="Qlik Sense">Qlik Sense</a></li>
<li><a href="Tableau_Software" title="Tableau Software">Tableau</a></li></ul>
<p>Open source software that supports WMS include:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="QGIS" title="QGIS">QGIS</a></li>
<li><a href="UDig" title="UDig">uDig</a></li>
<li><a href="JUMP_GIS" title="JUMP GIS">OpenJUMP</a></li>
<li><a href="MapGuide_Open_Source" title="MapGuide Open Source">MapGuide Open Source</a></li>
<li><a href="NASA_World_Wind" class="mw-redirect" title="NASA World Wind">NASA World Wind</a></li>
<li><a href="GRASS_GIS" title="GRASS GIS">GRASS GIS</a></li>
<li><a href="GeoTrellis" title="GeoTrellis">GeoTrellis</a></li>
<li><a href="JOSM" title="JOSM">JOSM</a></li>
<li><a href="GvSIG" title="GvSIG">gvSIG</a></li>
<li><a href="OpenLayers" title="OpenLayers">OpenLayers</a></li>
<li><a href="Leaflet_(software)" title="Leaflet (software)">Leaflet.js</a></li>
<li><a href="GE_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="GE Energy">GE Energy</a>'s SIAS, an <a href="Ajax_(programming)" title="Ajax (programming)">Ajax</a> library, supports WMS for integrating WMS maps into web pages, as does <a href="Mapbender" title="Mapbender">Mapbender</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation" title="Open Source Geospatial Foundation">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo)</li>
<li><a href="Web_Coverage_Service" title="Web Coverage Service">Web Coverage Service</a> (WCS)</li>
<li><a href="Web_Coverage_Processing_Service" title="Web Coverage Processing Service">Web Coverage Processing Service</a> (WCPS)</li>
<li><a href="Web_Feature_Service" title="Web Feature Service">Web Feature Service</a> (WFS)</li>
<li><a href="Tile_Map_Service" title="Tile Map Service">Tile Map Service</a>, a specification by <a href="Open_Source_Geospatial_Foundation" title="Open Source Geospatial Foundation">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a> (OSGeo) for tiled map layers</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1081&version=1&format=pdf">"Web Map Service Implementation Specification – Version 1.1.1"</a>. Open Geospatial Consortium. 2002-01-16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-04-10</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=14416">"Web Map Service Implementation Specification – Version 1.3.0"</a>. Open Geospatial Consortium. 2004-01-20<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2010-10-26</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html">"WMS Server"</a>. Mapserver<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-04-10</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld">"Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the OpenGIS Web Map Service"</a>. OGC<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-07-01</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><a href="Catalog_Service_for_the_Web" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalog Service for the Web">CSW</a></li>
<li><a href="GeoPackage" title="GeoPackage">GeoPackage</a></li>
<li><a href="GeoRSS" title="GeoRSS">GeoRSS</a></li>
<li><a href="GeoSPARQL" title="GeoSPARQL">GeoSPARQL</a></li>
<li><a href="Geography_Markup_Language" title="Geography Markup Language">GML</a></li>
<li><a href="Keyhole_Markup_Language" title="Keyhole Markup Language">KML</a></li>
<li><a href="Observations_and_Measurements" title="Observations and Measurements">O&M</a></li>
<li><a href="OGC_Reference_Model" title="OGC Reference Model">OGC Reference Model</a></li>
<li><a href="SensorML" title="SensorML">SensorML</a></li>
<li><a href="Sensor_Observation_Service" title="Sensor Observation Service">SOS</a></li>
<li><a href="Simple_feature_access" class="mw-redirect" title="Simple feature access">SFA</a></li>
<li><a href="Styled_Layer_Descriptor" title="Styled Layer Descriptor">SLD</a></li>
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<li><a href="TransducerML" title="TransducerML">TransducerML</a></li>
<li><a href="Tile_Map_Service" title="Tile Map Service">TMS</a></li>
<li><a href="WaterML" title="WaterML">WaterML</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_Coverage_Service" title="Web Coverage Service">WCS</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_Feature_Service" title="Web Feature Service">WFS</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_Map_Tile_Service" title="Web Map Tile Service">WMTS</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_Processing_Service" title="Web Processing Service">WPS</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_Registry_Service" title="Web Registry Service">WRS</a></li></ul>
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