OGC Web Services in Nova Scotia

Web Map Services, or WMS, are Internet ready maps that you can add to your Desktop GIS, an interactive mapping application, or to any HTML page. WMS is a specification developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The following are a few of the WMS’ available in Nova Scotia. The GetCapabilities links offer metadata about each service and should be opened in your browser (you can also save the resulting file with a .xml extension and open it in a text editor).

Service Name	GetCapabilities
Elections Nova Scotia WMS	link
Nova Scotia Wetlands WMS	link
Nova Scotia Department of Education WMS	link
Nova Scotia Topographic Database	link
Nova Scotia Groundwater WMS	link
Nova Scotia Surficial Geology WMS	link
Nova Scotia Coordinate Referencing System WMS	link
Nova Scotia 1:500,000 Planimetric WMS	link
Nova Scotia Environment WMS	link
Nova Scotia Geoscience Maps, Databases and Images WMS	link
Nova Scotia Significant Habitats WMS	link
Hurricane Juan - WMS	link
Nova Scotia Geographic Names WMS	link
Nova Scotia Ecological Land Classification - WMS	link
Nova Scotia Civic Address File WMS	link
Nova Scotia Wind Atlas WMS	link
Restricted and Limited Use Land WMS	link
Mineral Resource Land-Use Atlas WMS	link
Nova Scotia Property Records Database WMS	link