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Metview provides a module to request maps from a Web Map Services (WMS). The WMS standard is defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which is very popular in the GIS community. The WMS module can be used to query an OGC-compliant WMS server, retrieve maps from it and overlay them with other data. The WMS icon is a great way to integrate web services within Metview.
We have a separate tutorial which shows in more detail how you can use maps served by web map services within Metview.
Tasks
- Try We provided you with some example WMS icons. Try out the four WMS icons in the directory by visualising them.
- Drop the icon into a macro editor to explore how a WMS retrieval looks like.
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