{"id":18172,"date":"2023-02-09T23:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T04:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=standards&#038;p=4821"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:32:08","slug":"wms","status":"publish","type":"standards","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/standards\/wms\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Map Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-2-xl-font-size\"><strong>Web Map Service<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>This standard 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group pattern-single-column is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-2-xl-font-size wp-elements-c81bb6ca8df4a9fb76581a9b45c4fe6b\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The OpenGIS\u00ae 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE: WMS 1.3 and ISO 19128 are the same documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The OpenGIS\u00ae 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19403,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"standards-tag":[672,673],"class_list":["post-18172","standards","type-standards","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","standards-tag-web-map-service","standards-tag-wms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/standards"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19405,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards\/18172\/revisions\/19405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"standards-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/standards-tag?post=18172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}