{"id":18141,"date":"2023-02-08T16:11:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ogc.org\/?post_type=standards&#038;p=4632"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:51:54","slug":"ogcapi-tiles","status":"publish","type":"standards","link":"https:\/\/fm-connect1.fortmindz.in\/wp-ogc\/standards\/ogcapi-tiles\/","title":{"rendered":"OGC API &#8211; Tiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-2-xl-font-size\"><strong>OGC API &#8211; Tiles<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<p>This standard specification is a successor to the OGC\u2019s Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) standard, focusing on simple reusable REST API building blocks which can be described using the OpenAPI specification. Whereas WMTS focused on map tiles, this standard has been designed to support any form of tiled data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-group pattern-single-column is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color has-2-xl-font-size wp-elements-c81bb6ca8df4a9fb76581a9b45c4fe6b\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>OGC API\u2009\u2014\u2009Tiles is a standard defining building blocks for creating Web APIs that support the retrieval of geospatial information as tiles. Different forms of geospatial information are supported, such as tiles of vector features (\u201cvector tiles\u201d), coverages, maps (or imagery) and other types of geospatial information. Although it can be used independently, the OGC API\u2009\u2014\u2009Tiles building blocks can be combined with other OGC API Standards and draft specifications for additional capabilities or increasing interoperability for specific types of data. The OGC API\u2009\u2014\u2009Tiles standard references the OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set (TMS) and Tileset Metadata standard, which defines logical models and encodings for specifying tile matrix sets and describing tile sets. A tile matrix set is a tiling scheme that enables an application to partition and index space based on a set of regular grids defined for multiple scales in a Coordinate Reference System (CRS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This specification is a successor to the OGC\u2019s Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) standard, focusing on simple reusable REST API building blocks which can be described using the OpenAPI specification. 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