Oregon Coastal Atlas - Links to Map Service Information

The Oregon Coastal Atlas provides several Open Geospatial Consortium service types.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization, established in 1994. In the OGC, more than 400 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open standards for geospatial content and services, GIS data processing and data sharing.
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Connect to Oregon Coastal Atlas web services

The resources advertised in the GetCapabilities URLs provided below can be used in OGC capable clients such as ArcMap, QGIS, UDig, etc, as well as in other online map applications.

  • Web Map Service (WMS)
    A WMS (Web Map Service) is a service that provides rendered map images and allows for use of data from several different servers, enabling the creation of a network of Map Servers from which clients can build customized maps. A WMS server usually serves the map in a bitmap format, e.g. PNG, GIF or JPEG.

    More about this WMS Service
    WMS GetCapabilities XML

  • Web Feature Service (WFS)
    A WFS (Web Feature Service) is a service that publishes feature-level geospatial data to the web. This means that instead of returning an image, as a WMS does, the the server provides fine-grained information about specific geospatial features of the underlying data, at both the geometry AND attribute levels. A WFS uses GML (Geography Markup Language), as it's delivery mechanism.

    More about this WFS Service
    WFS GetCapabilities XML

  • Catalog Service for the Web (CSW)
    A CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) is a service for exposing a catalog of geospatial records on the Internet that defines common interfaces to discover, browse, and query metadata about data, services, and other potential resources. The CSW exposed catalog is made up of metadata records in formats such as Dublin Core, FGDC CSDGM, or ISO 19139. Each each metadata record must contain a set of core fields, such as: Title, Format, Type, BoundingBox, Coordinate Reference System.

    More about this CSW Service
    CSW GetCapabilities XML