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Preferred term

WMS  

Definition

  • A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet. These images are typically produced by a map server from data provided by a geographic information system (GIS) database.

Entry terms

  • Web Map Service

Identifier

  • WMS_SRVC

Notation

  • application/vnd.ogc.wms_xml
  • text/xml

In other languages

  • WMS

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/WMS_SRVC

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