Resources for experienced GIS Users and GIS Developers.
Whanganui District Council is committed to improving access to its Geospatial information. To enable this commitment, we provide OGC compliant web services for use in your GIS Software.
A Web Map Service (WMS) is a technology that allows you to retrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, and display the data as a raster image in your own GIS applications.
1.3.0 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities
1.1.1 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.1.1&request=GetCapabilities
A Web Feature Service (WFS) is a technology that allows you to retrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, and display the data in your own GIS applications.
WFS is similar to WMS which allows a client to overlay map images from multiple services over the internet.
But while a WMS Server provides raster based maps, a WFS Server provides raw coordinate data that the client uses to produce a map.
2.0.0 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/ows?service=wfs&version=2.0.0&request=GetCapabilities
1.1.0 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/ows?service=wfs&version=1.1.0&request=GetCapabilities
1.0.0 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/ows?service=wfs&version=1.0.0&request=GetCapabilities
A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) is a technology that allows you to retrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, in the form of map tiles of spatially referenced data using tile images with predefined content, extent, and resolution.
1.0.0 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/gwc/service/wmts?REQUEST=GetCapabilities
A Tile Map Service (TMS) is a technology that is similar to a WMTS service that allows you to retrieve GIS data direct from us over the internet, in the form of map tiles of spatially referenced data using tile images with predefined content, extent, and resolution.
1.0.0 https://data.whanganui.govt.nz/geoserver/gwc/service/tms/1.0.0
For GIS developers we provide open source code as well as QGIS related resources.
Our public code repositories at Github.