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OpenGIS Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) Interface Standard.

Siehe auch [[Tiling]].

Aus [http://www10.giscafe.com/nbc/articles/view_weekly.php?articleid=661566&page_no=2]: The candidate WMTS Interface Standard is much like the OGC’s popular Web Map Server ([[WMS]]) Interface Standard, but it enables better server performance in applications that involve many simultaneous requests. To improve performance, instead of creating a new image for each request, it returns small pre-generated images (e.g., PNG or JPEG) or reuses identical previous requests that follow a discrete set of tile matrices. This proposed standard provides support for multiple architectural patterns – KVP, REST and SOAP.

Reference implementations: Geowebcache, Carbonarc project and some others. 

"The WMTS spec is much more complex, and 'fully featured', as is common in specs designed by committee. Practically speaking, if OSGeo's [[Tile Map Service]] does what you need, you won't need WMTS.

== Weblinks  ==
* Download [http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/54 WMTS RFC]
* http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms (on discussion)