Dr. Jeff de La Beaujardiere receives OGC Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeff’s support of open standards and OGC’s FAIR mission has improved access to Earth science information for countless users and decision-makers globally.
Web Map Service
Overview
The OpenGIS® Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images (returned as JPEG, PNG, etc) that can be displayed in a browser application. The interface also supports the ability to specify whether the returned images should be transparent so that layers from multiple servers can be combined or not.
NOTE: WMS 1.3 and ISO 19128 are the same documents.
Downloads
Official model files and encoding schemas
Official Schemas
http://schemas.opengis.net/wms/
Note: You may also download All Official OGC Schemas in a single zip file.
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OGC Standards
- 3D Tiles
- 3dP
- ARML2.0
- Cat: ebRIM App Profile: Earth Observation Products
- Catalogue Service
- CDB
- CityGML
- CityJSON
- Coordinate Transformation
- EO-GeoJSON
- Filter Encoding
- GML in JPEG 2000
- GeoAPI
- GeoPackage
- GeoPose
- GeoSciML
- GeoSPARQL
- Geography Markup Language
- GeoRSS
- Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML)
- Geospatial User Feedback (GUF)
- GeoTiff
- GroundwaterML
- HDF5
- I3S
- Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)
- IndoorGML
- KML
- LandInfra/InfraGML
- LAS
- Location Services (OpenLS)
- Moving Features
- NetCDF
- Observations and Measurements
- OGC API – EDR
- OGC API – Common
- OGC API – Features
- OGC API – Processes
- OGC API – Tiles
- Open GeoSMS
- OpenMI
- OpenSearch
- Ordering Services Framework for Earth Observation Products
- OWS Context
- OWS Security
- PipelineML
- PubSub
- PUCK
- SWE Common Data Model
- SWE Service Model
- Sensor Model Language
- Sensor Observation Service
- Sensor Planning Service
- SensorThings
- Semantic Sensor Network (SSN)
- Symbology Core
- Simple Features
- Simple Features CORBA
- Simple Features OLE/COM
- Simple Features SQL
- Styled Layer Descriptor
- Symbology Encoding
- Table Joining Service
- Time Ontology in OWL
- TimeseriesML (tsml)
- Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set
- WaterML
- Web Coverage Processing Service
- Web Coverage Service
- Web Feature Service
- Web Map Context
- Web Map Service
- Web Map Tile Service
- Web Processing Service
- Web Service Common
- WKT CRS
