[OSM-dev] WMSC - bachelor thesis

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, sorel johann <johann.sorel at geomatys.fr> wrote:

> WMSC is obsolete, WMTS is the real OGC specificiation. osm uses something
> which is not normalized, some kind of custom TMS service. several projects
> out there us custom services, google maps, bing maps, yahoo maps ...

Or alternatively, the OGC made a mess of the TMS specification and
made it incompatible with the vast majority of TMS-like maps that
existed at that time.

Also, I've never heard of WMTS, but from what little I read[1], it's
just an overcomplicated version of TMS.

Gotta love OGC standards.

Cheers,
Andy

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/tilecache/2009-September/002031.html