{"id":755,"date":"2013-05-28T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=755"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:09:04","slug":"usgs-web-map-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=755","title":{"rendered":"USGS web map services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgs.gov\">USGS<\/a> makes a number of their map products available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_Map_Service\">WMS<\/a> Web Map service. These layers are available to use as a backdrop in GIS software, such as ArcGIS or the free, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_source\">open-source<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/\">QGIS<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/viewer.nationalmap.gov\/example\/services.html\">http:\/\/viewer.nationalmap.gov\/example\/services.html<\/a> for a list of the services. Use the Link found under the WMS column in your GIS software of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USGS makes a number of their map products available as a WMS Web Map service. These layers are available to use as a backdrop in GIS software, such as ArcGIS or the free, open-source, QGIS. See http:\/\/viewer.nationalmap.gov\/example\/services.html for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[17,46,104,103],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-information","tag-arcgis","tag-arcmap","tag-qgis","tag-wms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}