General Information
What is this service?
This service provides the map all over Japan; which is produced from Fundamental Geospatial Data published by Geographical Survey Institute (GSI), Japan, and euqals with 1:25000 map. This service provides via OGC WMS(Web Map Service).
Many commercial or free desktop GIS can be WMS(1.1.1/1.3.0) clients. Therefore GIS requests the map where it needs.
If you regist the URL to your GIS, you can get the map as basis layer without downloading map data or special operations.
WMS ready clients
We see WMS ready clients as below:
- ArcGIS
- Quantum GIS
- uDig
- Google Earth
- UMN Mapserver
And we get that what may be WMS ready clients are as below.
- OpenJUMP
- GeoNetwork
There are other WMS ready clients, we think.
This service uses Fundamental Geospatial Data published by Geographical Survey Institute (GSI), Japan with its approval under the article 30 of The Survey Act. (Approval Number GYOU-SHI No.449 2008)
Using the data by this service is required the approval by Director General of GSI (Terms of Use).