Glossary

 

WMS is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS database. It is not editable.

 

A web service is a method of online communication between two electronic devices. It’s a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.

 

XLS

Excel Binary File Format (.XLS) is a proprietary file format for Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet) files.

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