Installation of a Web Map Service (WMS) for the Directorate General of Cadastre and Geography, Honduras

Abstract

The lack of means to access to official information the country’s territorial generates needs as being the location of the geographic information of the area and even more limited release official institutions that handle such information, this leads to the requirement primarily within the national regulators of geographic information to know and look for solutions that meet these needs and at the same time allowing access to geographic data generated.

It is where the contribution of this project such as the installation of a web map server with the integration of GIS tools, land, geographical data, technologies, standards and OGC Service opening this time you can use the free software that allowed us to share geospatial information in the country and that this in turn is easy to find on the web where one of the aims of the web Map Service is to facilitate the handling of geographic information to the user end in a practical, user-friendly and uncomplicated that allow software applications for free, and most importantly that this institution regulated by a government official as the Cadastre and Geography.

Revista Ciencias Espaciales, Volumen 8, Número 1 Primavera, 2015; 520-534