Tile Map Service or TMS, is a specification for

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s, developed by the

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. The definition generally requires a

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structure which attempts to fulfill

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principles. The TMS protocol fills a gap between the very simple standard used by

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and the complexity of the

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standard, providing simple urls to tiles while also supporting alternate spatial referencing system.

Support

TMS is most widely supported by web mapping clients and servers; although there is some desktop support, the

protocol is more widespread for enterprise mapping applications. The

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library supports TMS natively, while the

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allows URL templating, which makes support possible for developers. TileCache is one of the most popular supporting servers, while other servers like mod tile and TileLite focus on the de facto

standard.

WMTS

TMS served as the basis for the OpenGIS

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OGC standard.

References

External links

TMS Specification
OSGeo-Wiki Free software server implementation of the TMS specification:
TileCache

MapProxy

ROK4

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Support

WMTS

See also

References

External links