The paper introduces the topic of geo-information services, which serve to publish spatial data on the Internet. In particular it is focused on two types of services that will serve as reference standards for developing data download services within the Infrastructure for Spatial Information In Europe (INSPIRE). These two standards are: Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS). Their implementations are still much less popular than Web Map Service (WMS) implementations for viewing map data. However, in this paper, the growing prospects for the development of WFS and WCS services are indicated, as well as their specifications and current leading implementations are described. In the Polish web resources it is worth to notice the implementations of WFS on the governmental portal - Geoportal.gov.pl. Another good example - from a local government unit - are WFS services on the web portalof the Spatial Information System of Wrocław. Implementations of WCS are still not present in the Polish web resources, despite their growing popularity in the World. In the paper the very essential topic of legal conditions for the use of spatial data downloaded by the means of geo-information services is also outlined (i.a. the issues of: intellectual property rights, data pricing, data sharing for the purpose of the execution of public tasks). In the conclusion the attention is paid to the assets of geographic information systems (GIS) and geo-information services (in particular: data download services - WFS and WCS) for their application in spatial management and urban planning.
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