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WxS is short for the family of OGC Web <whatever> Services. The most well-known ones are:

  • grids/maps
    • 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.
  • CSW: catalogue service for the web

These WxS standards are an important part of the suite of layered standards OpenEarth identified. Wxs provides tailored data, graphics of data and catalogs of data. For the full user range they need to be accompanied though by standards for exchange of standard grid/vector data (netCDF-CF-OPeNDAP), relational data (PostgreSQL-PostGIS) and for raw data (subversion).

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