Everything about Web Map Service

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Web Map ServiceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: g:Profiler—interoperable web service for functional enrichment analysis and gene identifier mapping (2023 update)Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Geospatial services and applications for the InternetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Collaborative Web Service Quality Prediction via Exploiting Matrix Factorization and Network MapCited 113 times
5. Go sideways: Web Coverage ServiceA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Geographic information system softwareA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Collaborative Web Service Quality Prediction via Exploiting Matrix Factorization and Network Map

  Mingdong Tang, Zibin Zheng, Guosheng Kang · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management · 113 citations

• An active crawler for discovering geospatial Web services and their distribution pattern – A case study of OGC Web Map Service

  Wenwen Li, Chaowei Yang, Chongjun Yang · 2010 · International Journal of Geographical Information Science · 56 citations

• A Web Map Service implementation for the visualization of multidimensional gridded environmental data

  J.D. Blower, A.L. Gemmell, G.H. Griffiths · 2013 · Environmental Modelling & Software · 50 citations

• MapShaper.org: a map generalization Web service

  M. Harrower, M. Bloch · 2006 · IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications · 36 citations

• Web Mercator and Raster Tile Maps: Two Cornerstones of Online Map Service Providers

  Emmanuel Stefanakis · 2017 · Geomatica · 26 citations

• Map generalization and schema transformation of geospatial data combined in a Web Service context

  Theodor Foerster, Lassi Lehto, Tapani Sarjakoski · 2010 · Computers, Environment and Urban Systems · 22 citations

• Rchemcpp: a web service for structural analoging in ChEMBL, Drugbank and the Connectivity Map

  Günter Klambauer, Martin Wischenbart, Michael Mahr · 2015 · Bioinformatics · 20 citations

• Hydrogeochemische Hintergrundwerte der Grundwässer Deutschlands als Web Map Service

  Bernhard Wagner, Thomas Walter, Thomas Himmelsbach · 2011 · Grundwasser · 13 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• g:Profiler—interoperable web service for functional enrichment analysis and gene identifier mapping (2023 update)

  Liis Kolberg, Uku Raudvere, Ivan Kuzmin · 2023 · Nucleic Acids Research · 2,015 citations

• Optimized hadoop map reduce system for strong analytics of cloud big product data on amazon web service

  Shengying Yang, Wuyin Jin, Yunxiang Yu · 2023 · Information Processing & Management · 12 citations

• Browsing behavior modeling and browsing interest extraction in the trajectories on web map service platforms

  Guangsheng Dong, Rui Li, Huayi Wu · 2022 · Expert Systems with Applications · 9 citations

• Using a Web Map Service to map Little Ice Age glacier extents at regional scales

  Johannes Reinthaler, Frank Paul · 2023 · Annals of Glaciology · 7 citations

• Implementation of Web Map Services for Old Cadastral Maps

  Alvaro Verdu-Candela, Carmen Femenia-Ribera, Gaspar Mora-Navarro · 2023 · ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Geospatial services and applications for the InternetJohn T. Sample · 2008
• An introduction to web mapping & geospatial web servicesEmmanuel Stefanakis · 2015
• Online Maps With Apis And WebservicesMichael P. Peterson · 2012

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🔗 Related topics

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