The Tile Maps API is a RESTful web API service which conforms to the OGC specification for WMTS Version 1.0.0 is supported (see http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmts for further details on the standard). Tiles allows users to request spatially referenced map tiles through the HTTP protocol. Any client that adheres to the OGC specification can access the service and request map tiles. This API supports two request types – GetCapabilities and GetTile.
This API supports standard requests using KVP, RESTful encoding and Simple Profile to display map tiles according to the WMTS v1.0.0 specification.