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What is a WMS OGC web service?
(OGC), Web Map Service (WMS) specification is an international specification for serving and consuming dynamic maps on the web. You can publish a WMS service to ArcGIS Server by enabling the WMS capability when you publish a map or image service in ArcGIS Desktop.
How are OGC web services useful for web mapping?
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. A WMS request defines the geographic layer(s) and area of interest to be processed.
If you want to share the shapefile through an OGC web service as a vector, consider WFS. Yes, you can share shapefiles through WMS. Mapserver and QGIS and others can be WMS (or WFS) servers (in addition to clients). Running a WMS or WFS server requires that you run web server infrastructure like Apache.
Where can I find list of WMS services?
For each service there is also basic availability info included each directory service page. For an example see the page of the Open Data service of the Finnish Meteorological Institute http://directory.spatineo.com/service/9096/ Disclaimer: Posted by the founder & CTO of Spatineo
Which is listing available for weather and land data?
Listing available online WMS services (Weather, Land Data, Place Names)? – Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange Listing available online WMS services (Weather, Land Data, Place Names)? This question’s answers are a community effort. Edit existing answers to improve this post. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions.
WMS can support things like GetFeatureInfo which allows you to query attributes of the underlying vector data. If you want to share the shapefile through an OGC web service as a vector, consider WFS. Yes, you can share shapefiles through WMS. Mapserver and QGIS and others can be WMS (or WFS) servers (in addition to clients).