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OGC compliant WMS and WFS services

NBII-NIN Governmental and Statistical Unit Server for the Northeast

This page contains links to OGC compliant WMS and WFS services hosted by NBII-NIN. Administrative and Statistical boundaries from the 2000 US Census are provided for the eight state region that constitutes the Northeast Information Node. Project specific services are also provided as a gateway to data collected by NBII-NIN and its partners.

To access data, right click on the service you wish to add to your client and select the "Copy Link Location" option. Return to your map and paste the WMS or WFS link into the Add Service area.

Administrative and Statistical OGC Services

URL	Description	Expected result
List of WFS services available from this server	WFS Providers list	HTML
Capabilities for Northeast boundaries as simple feature classes	WFS Capabilities	XML
Capabilities for Northeast boundaries rendered in a WMS	WMS Capabilities	XML
Capabilities for Northeast States using FGDC Governmental Units Schema	WFS Capabilities	XML
Capabilities for Northeast Counties using FGDC Governmental Units Schema	WFS Capabilities	XML
Capabilities for Northeast Census Tracts using FGDC Governmental Units Schema	WFS Capabilities	XML
Capabilities for Northeast Block Groups using FGDC Governmental Units Schema	WFS Capabilities	XML
Northeast Features Portrayed	State features portrayed	GIF

Please note that the county, tract, and block group units have a server-side limit of 2,000 features per request. Requests that exceed this limit will only return a subset of features.

Project Specific OGC Services

URL	Description	Expected Result
List of WFS services available from this server	WFS Providers list	HTML
Capabilities for The Nature Conservancy's Neversink Watershed Data Service	WFS Capabilities	XML
Neversink Subsheds Portrayed	Subshed Boundaries Portrayed	GIF

The table below provides a review of OGC compliant clients and links to download or obtain additional information on the client.

Review of OGC compliant clients

Client	Free or Open Source	WMS	WFS	Link
Gaia 2.0.5	X	X	X	http://www.thecarbonproject.com/
Open Jump	X	X		http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage
ArcGIS 9.x		X		http://www.esri.com
Intergraph GeoMedia		X	X	http://www.intergraph.com/geomedia/
uDig	X	X	X	http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home
Degree	X	X	X	http://www.latlon.de/

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