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# Technical specification

OS NGD API – Tiles technical specification provides an overview of the endpoints available, as well as the parameters that can be used with each endpoint. The Technical Specification is intended to be used by customers who want to integrate with the API.\
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The service offers the following endpoints:

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Landing page</strong></td><td>OS NGD API – Tiles landing page.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/landing-page.md">Landing page</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Conformance</strong></td><td>List the OS NGD API – Tiles conformance to the OGC API - Tiles specification.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/conformance.md">Conformance</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Collections</strong></td><td>Get a list of all the available tile layers available.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/collections.md">Collections</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Collection</strong></td><td>Get information about a specific tile layer.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/collection.md">Collection</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tile Matrix Sets</strong></td><td>Get the available tiling schemes and definition.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/tile-matrix-sets.md">Tile matrix sets</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Tiles</strong></td><td>Get tilesets and vector tiles from a specific tile layer.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/tiles.md">Tiles</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Styles</strong></td><td>Get a list of the available styles and the stylesheet.</td><td><a href="/os-apis/accessing-os-apis/os-ngd-api-tiles/technical-specification/styles.md">Styles</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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