Web Map Services

• Introduction
• United Kingdom
  • Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
  • Digimap OpenStream
  • British Geological Survey (BGS)
  • Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
  • Scottish Government
  • UK Government Datasets
• European Data
  • European Data Portal
• Global/WGS84
  • Open Street Map (OSM)
  • New York State
  • General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (Gebco)

Introduction

The following are some example WMS feeds that can be used in Digimap Roam clients. The list is not definitive and just gives a range of examples from various sources.

If you have a WMS that you think should work, and have tested that it works in other software (e.g. QGIS or ArcGIS Online), please let us know so we can improve the service.

Note: we do not endorse or guarantee that any of the following feeds work or are without fault.

United Kingdom

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

The Spatial Data Catalog is a portal that provides access to many UK Government datasets.

• https://environment.data.gov.uk/ and search for WMS

Examples:

• Crop Map 2017
• https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/crop-map-of-england-2017/wms

Digimap OpenStream

Digimap OpenStream is a WMS service run by EDINA which provides WMS feeds of OS Open Data products. Sign up for your own OpenStream API keye here: https://openstream.edina.ac.uk/registration/

The WMS url should look like:

• http://openstream.edina.ac.uk/openstream/wms?token=[insert your token here]
• e.g http://openstream.edina.ac.uk/openstream/wms?token=8c0e792e28ffab921fcff0f2c7176f0db2c8df8b12ed7f468f38e043

British Geological Survey (BGS)

There are a variety of WMS that are available from BGS at: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/services/wms.html

Including:

• https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/UKSO/UKSO_Crowdsourced/MapServer/WmsServer?
• https://map.bgs.ac.uk/arcgis/services/BGS_Detailed_Geology/MapServer/WMSServer?

Note: these are scale dependant so only appear when you zoom in in Roam. Currently there is no Get Feature Information implemented for WMS so you cannot click on a feature to get its attributes.

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)

A large number of layers are available at: https://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/wms.jsp

e.g.

• https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/arcgis/services/snh_habitats_and_species/MapServer/WMSServer?

Scottish Government

The SpatialData.gov.scot Metadata Portal gives access to a catalogue of Scottish Spatial data

https://spatialdata.gov.scot/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home

Search for WMS e.g. Scotlands Wetlands Inventory

• https://map.sepa.org.uk/arcgis/services/WMS_Habitats_and_Biotopes/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

UK Government Datasets

A large number canbe found on data.gov.uk by searching for WMS

e.g.

UK Wind and Air: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/wms-services

European Data

European Data Portal

Some WMS are available here:

• https://www.europeandataportal.eu/data/en/dataset?tags=wind+speed

Global/WGS84

Open Street Map (OSM)

Mundialis: https://www.mundialis.de/en/ows-mundialis/

• http://ows.mundialis.de/services/service?

Wheregroup: https://www.wheregroup.com/en/node/27

• https://osm-demo.wheregroup.com/service?SERVICE=WMS&Version=1.1.1&REQUEST=getCapabilities

New York State

https://gis.ny.gov/gateway/mg/webserv/webserv.html#wms

• https://orthos.dhses.ny.gov/ArcGIS/services/Latest/MapServer/WMSServer

General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (Gebco)

https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_web_services/web_map_service/

• https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_web_services/web_map_service/mapserv