The MILSYM^™ Web Map Service leverages the MILSYM^™ Rendering Framework to provide the means to portray point, line, area and multi-point data using military symbology and provided as a geo-referenced image through an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Server HTTP interface.

This service is useful to:

• provide situation data, portrayed using military symbology, to disadvantaged GIS-based clients that cannot otherwise receive or process the situation data.
• loosely couple the symbology rendering with the target application or service.
• centralize the production of symbology for consistency, maintenance and quality purposes.
• to reduce development and deployment costs when upgrading an network of systems, applications and services to a new symbology standard version.

The MILSYM^™ Web Map Service consumes layer data from a plug-able layer provider component. This plug-able component provides the ability to tailor the Web Map Service to your specific data source or format.

Symbology standards supported:

• USA MIL-STD-2525D
• NATO APP-6D
• ANSI INCITS 415-2006

Utilizing a Layer Factory concept the service is extensible and can be bound to any information source.

However, out of the box, the MILSYM^™ Web Map Service provides bindings for the following information sources:

• NATO Vector Graphics (NVG) v2.0.2
• MILSYM^™ Situation Data XML API

Custom Layer Factory implementations may be produced on request.