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What is Web Mapping Service (WMS)

Web Mapping Service, a standard defined by the OpenGIS consortium that provides a standard interface for querying and accessing map layers from a mapping server. Clients and Servers that adhere to the WMS standard can communicate with one another regardless of their underlying implementation

The WMS specification standardizes three operations that are used to request a map from a client application.

  • GetCapabilities
  • GetMap
  • GetFeatureInfo

GetCapabilities examples

Sweden

http://www.metainfo.se/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/gitbarents_sv_wms?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS

Norway

http://wms.geonorge.no/skwms1/wms.gitbarents?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS

Finland

http://www.gitbarents.fi/wmsconnector/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/gitbarents_fi_wms?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS

Russia

http://gitbarents.gov-murman.ru/wmsconnector/com.esri.wsit.WMSServlet/gitbarents_ru_wms?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS

Russia cyrillic interface

http://gis.gov-murman.ru/arcgis/services/GIT_Barents/MapServer/WMSServer?REQUEST=GetCapabilities&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS