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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==