White Papers

While Geographic Information Systems have been around for more than 20 years their uptake by business has been less than stellar. Their benefits to decision support, business intelligence, public information and operations are clear, but they have been plagued by high cost and a low rate of implementation success. However, several factors now mitigate these traditional issues, and now even small companies can benefit from GIS through the use of GIS Web Services.

In this White Paper, we highlight two of the key new GIS web services that every municipal technology manager must know about: Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Feature Services (WFS).