OGC API - Tiles¶
The OGC API - Tiles specification describes an API building block allowing other OGC API implementations to serve maps or feature data divided into individual tiles.
This API is replacing Web Map Tile Service (WMTS).
GeoServer has a basic implementation of an earlier draft of the specification, however, most of it is aligned with the current document. It is however to be noticed, that GeoServer implements a stand-alone Tile service, while the specification talks about a building-block that can be attached to any resource suitable for tiling (the top level style used by GeoServer is thus just one of the many options).