Jiao Donglai, Zhang Haitao, Lv Guonian, Jiang Jie. Coupling of map symbol web service and web map service[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2013, 18(9): 1190-1196. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20130918.
We want to apply map symbols in the web map service(WMS)
and allow a flexible customization of the WMS visualization. To achieve this
we studied the Styled Layer Descriptor implementation specification(SLD)
which support WMS
work on the publishing method for map symbols for the web
and worked on the analysis of WMS and SLD. We designed the structure of the web map symbol service
and put forward the coupling method between web map symbol service and WMS based on SLD
in order to solve the problem of not being able to change map style by WMS on WebGIS. We validated our metkodby a prototype system. The experiments show that this method can effectively associated map symbol service with WMS
allowing a flexible and customizable WMS visualization.