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OGC Requests Comments on Web Map Tiling Standard
27 February 2009, 4:49pm
February 27, 2009, Wayland, Mass. - The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is requesting comments from the public on the candidate OpenGIS® Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) Interface Standard.
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.
The 30 day public comment period for this document begins February 27, 2009. Comments are due by March 29, 2009. After the OGC's WMS
Standards Working Group has addressed comments received in response to the WMTS RFC the draft documents will be submitted to the OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee for their review and possible approval as an adopted OGC Standard.
The WMTS RFC can be downloaded from the link below.
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