Brian Cryer's Glossary of IT Terms with Links

WMS

WMS

1. Warehouse Management System.

2. Web Map Service. A technology for downloading map data from servers that are WMS compliant across the internet. WMS is defined by the Open GIS Consortium Inc in Web Map Service Implementation.

For more information see:

• www.opengis.org/docs/01-068r2.pdf - The WMS specification.

3. Web Map Server.