OpenGIS Consortium Publishes Web Map Server Cookbook. The
OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) has released a draft Version 1.0 Web Map
Server Cookbook as "the first in a planned series of books
detailing the implementation and use of OpenGIS Specifications."
This Cookbook covers the XML-based Web Map Server (WMS) interface
implementation specification. WMS "defines interfaces for Web-based
software to learn about, retrieve, merge and query maps. The
Cookbook provides the basic understanding and steps needed for
implementing and exploiting the WMS interface and related
technologies. Chapter 1 establishes the background and context of
the WMS interface implementation specification including a
discussion of WMS client and server development technologies (XML,
XSL/XSLT, ASP/JSP, etc.). More.
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