WMS output formatsΒΆ
WMS returns images in a number of possible formats. This page shows a list of the output formats. The syntax for setting an output format is:
format=<format>
where <format> is any of the options below.
Note
The list of output formats supported by a GeoServer instance can be found by a WMS GetCapabilities request.
| Format | Syntax | Notes |
| PNG | format=image/png | Default |
| PNG8 | format=image/png8 | Same as PNG, but computes an optimal 256 color (8 bit) palette, so the image size is usually smaller |
| JPEG | format=image/jpeg | |
| GIF | format=image/gif | |
| TIFF | format=image/tiff | |
| TIFF8 | format=image/tiff8 | Same as TIFF, but computes an optimal 256 color (8 bit) palette, so the image size is usually smaller |
| GeoTIFF | format=image/geotiff | Same as TIFF, but includes extra GeoTIFF metadata |
| GeoTIFF8 | format=image/geotiff8 | Same as TIFF, but includes extra GeoTIFF metadata and computes an optimal 256 color (8 bit) palette, so the image size is usually smaller |
| SVG | format=image/svg | |
| format=application/pdf | ||
| GeoRSS | format=rss | |
| KML | format=kml | |
| KMZ | format=kmz | |
| OpenLayers | format=application/openlayers | Generates an OpenLayers HTML application. |