PDC Geospatial Information Services
PDC Geospatial Information Services equip disaster managers, planners, governments, and non-governmental organizations with real-time access to map services. PDC is committed to supporting a wide range of OGC and industry standards for the widest range of interoperability. At present, PDC publishes mapservices in WMS, WFS, KML, and WCS formats from OGC, as well as ESRI's ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS. Read more...
PDC map services can be instantly incorporated into GIS analytical software packages and decision support environments. PDC is committed to fostering data sharing worldwide by serving the data holdings of our organization and those of our data partners according to best-in-class interoperability standards and protocols. The Global Hazards Information Network (GHIN), powered by PDC's geospatial data management environment, is publicly available, enabling access to a wide range of high-quality geospatial data resources, including PDC's map services. For more information on GHIN, visit http://www.pdc.org/ghin/.
To connect to PDC map services, follow these steps:
1. Find a map service
To see a full list of map services, click on the
tab in the
banner. On the left sidebar, the last hyperlink in the "Categories"
list is "services". Click on that hyperlink to see all of the Live
Data and Maps and Applications.
To search on a specific keyword (e.g. tsunami), click on the
tab
in the banner. In the search form on the left sidebar, choose a content
type of "Live Data and Maps" and enter a keyword.
2. Determine what services are offered
button for that entry. Near the bottom of the
page is a section called "Spatial Data Information", which describes
the data format(s) in which the map service is available. Note
whether the service is published with ArcGIS Server or ArcIMS (or
both). Just below that, the "Access and Usage Information" section
provides connection information (URL, map service name, etc).
3. Connect to the service
4. Sign up for notifications about important updates
For more information:
- WMS: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms
- WFS: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wfs
- KML: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml
- WCS: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs
- ArcGIS Server: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisserver
- ArcGIS Server REST services website help: http://ags.pdc.org/arcgis/sdk/rest/index.html?servicesdirectory.html
- Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/
- ArcIMS: http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcims
Requested Citation
PDC prefers to have its services cited using, where practicable, the triangle-only graphic seen below, and—with or without that graphic—the following statement:
Data from Pacific Disaster Center, http://www.pdc.org/ghin/.
The word "data" in the citation may be replaced with Some data, Layers, Layer x, etc. as appropriate.

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