Web Map Layers. Web Map Layers is an off-the-shelf but extensible web mapping product designed for map viewing and interrogation. The product is has been designed for users without direct experience of GIS, such as members of the public, and the vast majority of office workers who interact with spatial data but lay no claim to be GIS specialists. Web Map Layers manages spatial data as individual map layers, each of which is served as an Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. © (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS). The user interface is entirely web-browser-based and built on the OpenLayers JavaScript library. This gives the application the familiar look and feel that everyone has come to expect of web mapping: notably zooming and panning by clicking and dragging -- so-called 'slippy' maps. Unlike some hosted products, Web Map Layers divorces the application software from dependency on any particular map data supplier or product.
Tags: web mapping, software, GIS, OGC, WMS, openlayers, spatial data
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