WxS is short for the family of OGC Web <whatever> Services. The most well-known ones are:
- grids/maps: WMS and WCS
- WMS primer Web Mapping Services: request map/grid graphics over the web.
- WCS primer Web Coverage Services: request map/grid data over the web.
- vectors/features
- WFS primer Web Feature Services: request vectors _graphics_over the web.
- WFS primer Web Feature Services: request vectors data over the web.
- WPS Web Processing Services: request remote processing of some kind calculation.
- WPS primer Web Processing Services: request remote processes for pre-defined calculations over the web using a web browser.
- CSW: catalogue service for the web
- CSW primer Catalogue Service for the Web; get a list of datasets from a csw instance.
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