A Web Map Service is a standard protocol developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999 for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet.

Standard for describing network services.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.

A shared web hosting service is a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet.

A Web Map Tile Service is a standard protocol for serving pre-rendered or run-time computed georeferenced map tiles over the Internet.

In computing, the Open Geospatial Consortium Web Feature Service Interface Standard provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform-independent calls.

The OGC Web Processing Service Interface Standard provides rules for standardizing inputs and outputs (requests and responses) for invoking geospatial processing services, such as polygon overlay, as a web service.

The Open Geospatial Consortium Web Coverage Service Interface Standard defines a web-based interface for the retrieval of coverages—that is, digital geospatial information representing space/time-varying phenomena.