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Line 1: {{Short description\|Technical standard for Geographical Information System}} {{infobox file format \| name = WMS Line 12 ⟶ 13: }} A '''Web Map Service''' ('''WMS''') is a standard protocol developed by the [[Open Geospatial Consortium]] in 1999 for serving [[georeference]]d map images over the Internet.<ref name="release">{{cite book \|last=Scharl \|first=Arno \|author2=Klaus Tochtermann \|author2-link=Klaus Tochtermann \|title=The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society \|publisher=Springer \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-1-84628-826-65 \|pages=225}}</ref> These images are typically produced by a [[mapping server\|map server]] from data provided by a [[Geographic Information System\|GIS]] database.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms \|title=Web Map Service \|publisher=Open Geospatial Consortium \|access-date=2009-03-23}}</ref> ==History== Line 27 ⟶ 28: * GetFeatureInfo – if a layer is marked as 'queryable' then you can request data about a coordinate of the map image. * DescribeLayer – returns the feature types of the specified layer or layers, which can be further described using [[Web Feature Service\|WFS]] or [[Web Coverage Service\|WCS]] requests. This request is dependent on the Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of WMS.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sld \|title=Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Profile of the OpenGIS Web Map Service \|publisher=OGC \|access-date=2015-07-01}}</ref> * GetLegendGraphic – ~~return~~returns an image of the map's legend image, giving a visual guide to map elements. All communication is served through [[HTTP]]. ==Map image== Line 56 ⟶ 57: [[Autodesk]]'s Infrastructure Map Server [[Manifold System]] [[MapTiler\|MapTiler Server]] [[Luciad]]'s LuciadLightspeed and LuciadFusion products<ref name="Luciad solutions">[http://www.luciad.com/solutions – Luciad solutions]</ref>