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WEB MAP SERVICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Web Map Service mean?
• WEB MAP SERVICE (noun)
The noun WEB MAP SERVICE has 1 sense:
1. a computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information
Familiarity information: WEB MAP SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A computer program that produces maps of spatially referenced data dynamically from geographic information
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Web Map Server; Web Map Service
Hypernyms ("Web Map Service" is a kind of...):
computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)
Instance hyponyms:
MapQuest (a free, widely-used Web Map Server)
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