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Web Map Service
Capabilities
The MapInfo Spatial Server Web Map Service supports three capabilities which
are described in detail in this section.
In accordance with the Open GIS Consortium's Web Map Service Implementation
Specification, the MapInfo Spatial Server WMS provides the following operations:
GetCapabilities – This capability retrieves service-level metadata including the
server name, the layer names, abstracts about the data, and the valid request
parameters.
GetMap – This capability is used to request a map image using well-defined
geospatial and dimensional parameters containing layers, styles, boundaries,
and the spatial reference system (coordinate system of the data being retrieved).
You can also specify the image format (JPEG, GIF, PNG, and others) and styles.
GetFeatureInfo – This capability is used to request information for a feature at
a given point on the map after a GetMap has been called.
All of these request types are case-sensitive.
In this section:
• Getting Service-level Metadata About a WMS . . . . . . . . .20
• Getting Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
• Getting Information About Map Features . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
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