A tile cache is a collection of tiles and metadata about how they should be used. A TPK contains a tile cache, for example. The collection can be local to a desktop or a client app in a client / server configuration.
Also known as
- map cache
Related terms
- tile
A tile is an image, often a graphics file (such as a .jpg), typically stored in a directory known as a cache. The image is part of a set of tiles that, conceptually, are pieces of a bigger map.