Welcome
What is Spectrum Spatial?
Getting Started
Learn about Spectrum Spatial.
Administration
Configure, manage, monitor, troubleshoot, and tune the performance of your system.
Introduction to Security
Manage user roles and security for Spectrum Spatial and Spectrum Spatial Analyst.
Resources and Data
Learn how to work with spatial and routing data using named resources.
Managing Spatial
Manage the Spectrum Spatial repository and Spectrum Spatial Analyst deployments using Spectrum Spatial Manager.
Development
Learn how to incorporate spatial and routing functionality into your solutions.
Stages
Learn about the spatial and routing stages available for dataflows in Spectrum Enterprise Designer.
Services
Learn how to access spatial and routing services from your applications.
Utilities
Take advantage of the productivity tools that Spectrum Spatial has for working with spatial data.
Reference
Information about Spatial Java properties, MapInfo SQL language, and closest arc snapping when calculating routes.

Web Map Service (WMS)

The Spectrum Technology Platform Web Map Service (WMS) allows software clients to reference map images over the Internet or a private intranet. The WMS implementation is based on the WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 OGC specification. Using HTTP GET requests, the WMS provides georeferenced data to a client as an image for that would then displays this data as an image. Georeferenced data is information associated with maps that describe the real world extents of specific features and the projection upon which it is based.

The images can be provided as GIF, JPEG, PNG, and other image formats.

WMS provides operations that:

describe the service capabilities such as available layers and coordinate system
get an image of a map
get information about features