A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999 for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet...
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A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is a standard protocol for serving pre-rendered or run-time computed georeferenced map tiles over the Internet. The specification...
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of Web geographic information systems (Web GIS). A web map or an online map is both served and consumed, thus, web mapping is more than just web cartography...
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A web service (WS) is either: a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet,...
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A tiled web map, slippy map (in OpenStreetMap terminology) or tile map is a map displayed in a web browser by seamlessly joining dozens of individually...
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List of online map services GraphHopper Navteq Petal Maps Online virtual globes Tencent Maps Traffic Message Channel (TMC) "Bing Maps Geographic Coverage"...
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Tile Map Service or TMS, is a specification for tiled web maps, developed by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The definition generally requires...
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Geospatial Foundation Web Coverage Service (WCS) Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Web Map Service (WMS) OpenGIS Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation...
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Yandex Maps (Russian: Яндекс Карты, romanized: Yandeks Karty) is a Russian web mapping service developed by Yandex. The service provides detailed maps of...
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MapQuest (stylized as mapquest) is an American free online web mapping service. It was launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. MapQuest...
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The WCS may be compared to the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) and the Web Map Service (WMS). As with WMS and WFS service instances, a WCS allows clients to...
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Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive...
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Tencent Maps is a desktop and web mapping service application and technology provided by Tencent, offering satellite imagery, street maps, street view...
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Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is...
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Apple Maps is a web mapping service developed by Apple Inc. As the default map system of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS, it provides directions and estimated...
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Azure Maps is a suite of cloud-based, location-based services provided by Microsoft as part of the company's Azure platform. The platform provides geospatial...
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Bing Maps (previously Live Search Maps, Windows Live Maps, Windows Live Local, and MSN Virtual Earth) is a web mapping service provided as a part of Microsoft's...
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2GIS. "Vietbando Maps", by Vietbando. "Vinalo Maps", Vinalo. Comparison of web map services National mapping agency "GeoInfo Map". www.map.gov.hk. Retrieved...
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implemented by several early adopters. WPS Simple Web Feature Service Web Map Service OpenGIS Web Processing Service (WPS) Standard, Version 1.0.0 WPS resources...
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their content available through web services, with interesting potential for mashups. Comparison of web map services Traffic Message Channel "Yahoo! Inc...
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Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service standard, and also implements the Web Map Service, Web Coverage Service and Web Processing Service specifications....
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The Army Map Service (AMS) was the military cartographic agency of the United States Department of Defense from 1941 to 1968, subordinated to the United...
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Web Services Choreography Working Group within the Web services Activity. The WSCI specification is one of the primary inputs into the Web Services Choreography...
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments...
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Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS) Web Coverage Service (WCS) Rasdaman Baumann, P. (ed.): OGC Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Language, OGC...
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Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions...
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choropleth map showing COVID-19 case data. Web GIS has numerous functions, which can be divided into categories of Geospatial web services, including web feature...
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Petal Maps is a map service based on TomTom provided by Huawei to devices with the operating system HarmonyOS, Android and iOS. It offers satellite imagery...
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Internet Map Server (IMS) provide maps through the Internet usually as images. One standard specification for such a server is the OGC Web Map Service. "OGC...
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APISO". Web Map Service (WMS) Web Feature Service (WFS) Web Coverage Service (WCS) Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Web Processing Service (WPS) "OpenGIS...
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