| CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) protocol | @loaders.gl/wms | protocol for reading a catalog of geospatial assets and services from a URL. |
| WMS (Web Map Service) protocol | @loaders.gl/wms | protocol for serving geo-referenced map images over the internet. |
| WFS (Web Feature Service) protocol | @loaders.gl/wms | protocol for serving geo-referenced map features (geometries) over the internet. |
| WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) protocol | @loaders.gl/wms | protocol for serving pre-rendered or run-time computed georeferenced map tiles over the Internet. |
| WCS (Web Coverage Service) | No | Load coverage data (e.g. geotiff images for satellite data) from a server. |
| WMC | No | Used in WMS clients to save the configuration of maps and to load them again later. Can also be exchanged between different clients. |
| OWS Context | No | Allows configured information resources to be passed between applications primarily as a collection of services. |