GEBCO Web Map Service (WMS)

On behalf of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) community, BODC has developed a WMS of the GEBCO_08 Grid — a global gridded bathymetric data set.

The WMS provides a means of accessing geo-referenced map images over the internet, which can be viewed in a web browser, incorporated in your own web applications or displayed in various geographic Information System (GIS) mapping packages.

Viewing the GEBCO WMS through a web browser ©

Supported service requests

• GetCapabilities
  
  GetCapabilities request for the GEBCO_08 Grid WMS
  This request returns information about the layers contained in the service in the form of an XML file (you may need to save this to view the information).
  

• GetMap
  
  GetMap request for the GEBCO_08 Grid WMS
  This request returns a map. Using the information given in the GetCapabilities request, the user can specify parameters such as the geographic extent of the map and the size of the returned image.