By adding some formality to what people have been doing for years with XYZ tilesets, the OGC API - Tiles Standard builds on the legacy of tiled maps . The Standard also specifies metadata elements that help clients do a better job at creating maps. This includes basic information such as a title or description, but also the available zoom levels, maximum x and y coordinates and even a custom map projection. You can see example of the usage of tileset metadata here.
Ensure that your application can read data from existing and new sources without changing how you communicate with them. Ensure that the data you share can be accessed by different clients, without having to share details of your implementation.
Check out an example here .
The OGC Tiles - API Standard is based on the technologies and vocabularies that make up the web today, such as REST, OpenAPI, JSON and HTML. This helps ensure a smooth learning curve for any web developer, even if they are not familiar with GIS.
The Tiles API Standard is a standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) . The Standard was developed and is maintained through a member-driven consensus process, which creates royalty free, publicly available, open geospatial standards.
The OGC API - Tiles Standard describes how mapping clients (e.g.: web pages, desktop applications) can get information about tilesets and how to request the tiled data itself. Like the
TileJSON
specification, implementations of the OCG API - Tiles Standard provides a way to describe tilesets available on a server. At the same time, it supports more use cases, such as serving data which is not projected in Google Mercator. Unlike the OGC Web Map Tiling Service Standard
(WMTS)
, the Tiles API specifies the use of JSON instead of XML and is organized in a series of
building blocks
that can be easily integrated into other applications. These building blocks are mapped to conformance classes. One may choose to conform to one or more conformance classes, according to the complexity of the use case and the aimed degree of interoperability.
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