Article Global-Scale Resource Survey and Performance Monitoring of Public OGC Web Map Services Zhipeng Gui 1,*, Jun Cao 2,3, Xiaojing Liu 2,3, Xiaoqiang Cheng 2,3 and Huayi Wu 2,3,* 1 School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, China;
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[email protected] (H.W.); Tel.: +86-027-6877-7167 (Z.G.); +86-027-6877-8311 (H.W.) Academic Editor: Wolfgang Kainz Received: 19 March 2016; Accepted: 26 May 2016; Published: date Abstract: One of the most widely-implemented service standards provided by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to the user community is the Web Map Service (WMS). WMS is widely employed globally, but there is limited knowledge of the global distribution, adoption status or the service quality of these online WMS resources. To fill this void, we investigated global WMSs resources and performed distributed performance monitoring of these services. This paper explicates a distributed monitoring framework that was used to monitor 46,296 WMSs continuously for over one year and a crawling method to discover these WMSs. We analyzed server locations, provider types, themes, the spatiotemporal coverage of map layers and the service versions for 41,703 valid WMSs.