Web Map Services

As part of an ongoing effort to make public sector environmental information more easily and widely available, Scottish Natural Heritage is publishing GIS data as Open GIS Consortium compliant web map services.

The OGC Web Map Service Interface Standard WMS provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from one or more distributed geospatial databases. These services can now be consumed by a number of Geographic Information Systems and geo-information browsers.

For more on OGC Web Map Services please refer to: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms

To access these services, copy and paste the appropriate web address (right-click - Copy Shortcut) below into your WMS client.

• Protected Areas
• Consultations
• Habitats and Species
• Renewables
• Landscape, Open Space and Access
• Administrative

More help about using WMS in desktop GIS applications

• Commercial
• ESRI ArcGIS Desktop version 10 - Connecting to WMS or WCS - Adding a WMS layer
• ESRI ArcGIS Desktop version 9 - Connecting to WMS or WCS - Adding a WMS layer
• MapInfo Professional - Documentation - Chapter 16
• Manifold GIS - Linked Images from OGC WMS Servers
• AutoCAD 3d Map 2012 - Adding an Image from a WMS (Web Map Service)
• Open source
• GRASS 6.4 - GRASS GIS 6.4.3svn Reference Manual (r.in.wms command)
• Quantum GIS - Tutorial: Using Online Data via WMS in Quantum GIS
• uDig - uDig Walkthrough #1 - Tutorial
• gvSIG - Adding a layer using the WMS protocol