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About SuperGIS Server OGC Service

The web map service that SuperGIS Server provides can be used not only to create Ultra, Flex and Silverlight websites, but also to publish OWS(OGC Web Service). It completely conforms the WMS (Web Map Service), WFS(Web Feature Service), WCS(Web Coverage Service) and WMTS(Web Map Tile Service) service that Open Geospatial Consortium has defined to contributes to the interoperability between geospatial data. In addition, users who use this function can integrate with SuperGeo series products to get the complete Internet Map solution.

As the SuperGIS Server OWS website is created, the WMS, WFS, WCS and WMTS web map service will be published together. In general, users need to access this type of map service through specific front-end application. In the new SuperGIS 3 series products, SuperGIS Desktop and SuperPad both provide the extension which can read WMS, WFS and WCS. Through the supported front-end application, users can directly get the OGC map service that SuperGIS Server Manager has published, which significantly enhances the interoperability between products and file sharing so that the working performance can be enhanced and the cost and time can be saved.

SuperGIS Server currently supports OGC WMS 1.0.0, 1.1.1, 1.3.0, OGC WFS 1.0.0, OGC WCS 1.0.0 standard, and OGC WMTS 1.0.0. It already gets official approved in the late 2009 and 2010. Now users can not only completely get the web map service but also can manipulate the data to make the extreme efficiency.

OGC Formats:

WMS(Web Map Service), defined by Open Geospatial Consortium, is a standard for map service to publish on the internet. Users can get the required map imagery (such as JPG, GIF or PNG file) from the GeoDatabase that is published and display on the browser with a simple HTTP interface provided by such standard.

WFS(Web Feature Service), defined by Open Geospatial Consortium, is a standard for the Feature Service on web. Users can get vector feature data of the web map file or query feature properties through a simple HTTP interface. Additionally,WFS defines the transactional capability of web data, such as add, delete, update, get or query properties. Please note that WFS service should work together with SuperGIS Server Feature Service which allows to edit feature, so that the service can be correctly published to front-end for navigation or feature editing.

WCS (Web Coverage Service), defined by Open Geospatial Consortium, is a standard that defines the interface and manipulation for exchange of coverage data on internet. WCS allows users to query and display the multi-dimensional coverage data (the raster data) through internet service, such as satellite imagery, aerial photography, DEM, etc.

WMTS(Web Map Tile Service), defined by Open Geospatial Consortium, is a standard for map service to publish to internet. It is similar to WMS, the difference is WMTS is based on Map Tile technology that the server will pre-generate the map tile imagery (or cache the map imagery in advance), as the front-end requires the map imagery of a specific region, the server will transmit the map tile of that region to display on the front-end. Thus, the server performance and the speed of image display in front-end can be significantly enhanced. Please note that, WMTS should work together with SuperGIS Server Map Cache Service to correctly publish to front-end for navigation.