WMS sources for Spotfire®

- some of these links are no longer working - we will be updating its and merging with some similar sources soon! - 

Introduction

WMS (Web Map Service) is a standard protocol for serving (over the Internet) georeferenced map images which a map server generates using data from a GIS database. The Open Geospatial Consortium developed the specification and first published it in 1999.

WMS is a great way to give more context to your geospatial analysis in Spotfire^® , to add background images in your maps for example. It is supported since Spotfire 6.5.

United States

WMS URL examples:

NWS Current Warnings (Confirmed Operational as of 5/9/2017)

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/wms/us/wwa.cgi?

Weather/Hurricane

https://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov/arcgis/services/NWS_Forecasts_Guidance_Warn...

https://idpgis.ncep.noaa.gov/arcgis/services/NWS_Observations/radar_base...

Sites:

• OGC Web Services: http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/ogc/
• FWS Fish and Wildflife service: https://www.fws.gov/wetlands/data/web-map-services.html
• USGS National Map: https://www.usgs.gov/products/maps/gis-data
• GEBCO Chart of the oceans: http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_web_services/web_map_service/
• NORA Coast Survey: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/seamlessraster.html
• NOAA Weather Service: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/services.html
• FEMA Flood Hazard: https://hazards.fema.gov/femaportal/wps/portal/NFHLWMS
• USDA Drought Monitor: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/MapsAndData/GISData.aspx

Europe

• Inspire Geoportal is a search engine for map services for European countries: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/

Worldwide

• Spatineo is a search engine for map services worldwide: http://directory.spatineo.com

There are many many more to find on the web. One easy way to find publicly available WMS is by searching Google with the following query: "Your data search" "Supported Interfaces:" wms

Example: "View footprint in:" "Supported Interfaces:" wms

Also See:

GeoAnalytics - https://community.spotfire.com/articles/spotfire/location-analytics-mapping-computational-geoanalytics-and-spatial-statistics-with-spotfire-and-spotfire-data-science/

TMS Sources - https://community.spotfire.com/s/article/GeoAnalytics-Resources-WMS-and-TMS-Layers