An OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) serves digital maps in the form of predefined image tiles. The OGC WMTS specification standardizes how a WMTS server publishes the available images, as well as how the images are exchanged between a WMTS server and a WMTS client.
Since the structure of the image data is strictly defined, visualizing data from a WMTS server is usually much more efficient than from a WMS server.
The LuciadLightspeed WMTS client API provides an easy framework to connect with a WMTS service, discover the available WMTS layers and visualize them in an application. The API includes a model decoder that connects to a WMTS server and creates a model for the desired WMTS layer, ready for visualization in a 2D and 3D view. Next to visualizing WMTS layers, you can also perform WMTS GetFeatureInfo requests to retrieve more information about a location on a WMTS layer.