OGC API - Tiles

A OGC Tiles API delivering both tiled data (vector tiles) and tiled maps (classic map tiles).

GeoServer implementation is based on an ealier specification draft (the specification is now finalized).

OGC API - Tiles Implementation status

OGC API - Tiles

Version

Implementation status

Part 1: Core

Draft

Implementation based on early specification draft, not yet updated to final version

Installing the GeoServer OGC API - Tiles module

  1. Download the OGC API nightly GeoServer community module from geoserver-2.24.x-ogcapi-tiles-plugin.zip.

    Warning

    Verify that the version number in the filename corresponds to the version of GeoServer you are running (for example geoserver-2.24-SNAPSHOT-ogcapi-tiles-plugin.zip above).

  2. Extract the contents of the archive into the WEB-INF/lib directory of the GeoServer installation.

  3. On restart the services are listed at http://localhost:8080/geoserver

Configuration of OGC API - Tiles module

The module exposes all Tiled layers configured for GeoWebCache using the OGC API - Tiles specification.

As such, it follows the same WMTS and Tile Caching configuration used to manage GeoWebCache.

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