Web Mapping Services Publication Standard

Purpose

This standard is designed to ensure that Washington State geospatial data correctly locate and align with industry standard, online mapping tools and web-based geospatial data systems.

They are designed to improve data quality, accuracy, rendering speed and improve the sharing of spatial data on the Web. It enables consistent online web mapping of geospatial data, based on an industry standard map tiling scheme and projection, with other commercial map services.