Text Box: Geospatial  Interoperability Office
Geospatial  Interoperability Office
Web Map Service
•WMS 1.0: 2000-04, WMS 1.1.1: 2002-04
•Scope: geographic data rendered as an image
(a "map"), not actual data values
•Operations:
–GetCapabilities - send service metadata
–GetMap - produce map of desired area
–GetFeatureInfo (opt.) - describe feature at point