News and events
GEBCO Web Map Service (WMS)
02 March 2011
On behalf of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) community, BODC has developed a WMS of the GEBCO_08 Grid — a global gridded bathymetric data set.
The WMS provides a means of accessing geo-referenced map images over the internet, which can be viewed in a web browser, incorporated in your own web applications or displayed in various geographic Information System (GIS) mapping packages.
Supported service requests
GetCapabilities
GetCapabilities request for the GEBCO_08 Grid WMS
This request returns information about the layers contained in the service in the form of an XML file (you may need to save this to view the information).
GetMap
GetMap request for the GEBCO_08 Grid WMS
This request returns a map. Using the information given in the GetCapabilities request, the user can specify parameters such as the geographic extent of the map and the size of the returned image.
Related BODC pages
| More news and events | The GEBCO project at BODC | |
| Download the GEBCO gridded bathymetric data sets | Order the GEBCO Digital Atlas |
Related external links
| Official GEBCO project web site |
