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The information that instructs how to reference the tiles in a tile cache. Defines spatial reference, naming convention, tiling grid, size of tiles in pixels, and scale levels at which the cache has tiles. Based on this schema, a system can determine what tiles are required to cover a map at a suitable resolution for the screen or output device.