Client Applications for WMS and other OWS services
This is a list of Clients that access WMS and other OGC specifications. All of them are free, some of them are open source.
Mapbuilder
MapBuilder is a powerful, standards compliant geographic mapping client which runs in a web browser.
Intergraph OGC Viewer
The Intergraph OGC Viewer facilitates collaboration of geospatial information stored in WMS sources. The thin-client Web-based application enables users to view one or more WMS servers accessed through Web sites that conform to the WMS interface standards defined by the OGC. The OGC Viewer source code is available for download.
Cadcorp Map Browser
Cadcorp Map Browser is your new, 'no cost' tool to browse OpenGIS standard geographic data served on the web and underlines Cadcorp’s commitment to Open GIS development. Global demand for open systems interoperability is accelerating with OpenGIS web interface standards making it possible to provide common access to disparate geographic information served via the internet.
Dapple
Dapple is a global data explorer designed to provide an open and optimal environment for visualizing, presenting and sharing massive quantities of geoscientific data on desktop computers. Dapple lets you browse, discover and display graphically rich data from global and corporate spatial servers – Geosoft DAP servers, NASA servers, USGS servers, and the many, many WMS servers currently available. The Dapple project is an open-source activity sponsored by Geosoft and derived from the NASA World Wind open source project. Dapple represents our effort to make this powerful technology accessible and useful to professional earth scientists.
Mapbender
Mapbender is the software and portal site for geodata management of OGC OWS architectures. The software provides web technology for managing spatial data services implemented in PHP, JavaScript and XML. It provides a data model and interfaces for displaying, navigating and querying OGC compliant map services. The Mapbender framework furthermore provides authentication and authorization services, OWS proxy functionality, management interfaces for user, group and service administration in WebGIS projects.
osgPlanet
Building on top of OSSIM and OpenSceneGraph capabilities, osgPlanet is a rapidly evolving project for accurate, high performance, 3D Geo-spatial visualization. It automatically intersects with DTED and/or SRTM elevation trees for topography and handles a wide range of commercial and government file formats natively. Additionally, remote layers can be accessed over the web through OGC WMS interfaces.
SimpleMapClient
SimpleMapClient: What is it? - It's a java application which allows browsing OpenGIS WMS servers.