WMS:Quick Tour -Finding Data
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With the advent of the internet, digital data such as DEMs, land use and soil polygons, rainfall estimates, etc. that are used to derive hydrologic models have become cost effective to obtain and use in programs like WMS. However, finding web sites that contain pertinent data and understanding how to download, unzip, and prepare for use in WMS can be a daunting task. For this purpose, the developers of WMS have collected resources for data. Using these resources a user can learn how to download and use these types of data in a WMS applications.