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Fig. 2: 

The fragment of the result XML file of GetCapabilities request showed in browser

In  the  next  step,  the  user  selects  the  value  of  the  parameters  of  GetMap  request 

depending  on  the  information  from  the  GetCapabilities  result.  For  example,  the 

information about the map formats is provided in the GetCapabilities result document. 

In this case, 

image/svg+xml

 means that the available map format 

in this server is: SVG 

The parameters of a GetMap request are shown in Table 3: 

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