Web Map Services

• Name: Web Map Services
• Alternative Name: WMS
• Specification URI: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wms
• Maintainer: OGC Open Geospatial Consortium
• Disciplines: Remote Sensing, Earth Science
• Description: The OpenGIS Web Map Service Interface Standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases.