I'm looking for a mechanism/mechanisms where by I can pre-render my own map tiles and then server them up to the client through OGC WMTS service. There are numerous ways I have searched on the web which say how to get the pre-rendered map tiles and hand them over to a client, but none of them is talking about first how to pre-render the tiles themselves and also how to invalidate the old tiles and update the tile cache with new tiles.
And in my case WMTS service is a must and I don't want to take help of a WMS service to fetch a big map image and chop that up into small tiles and hand it over to the end client for users to see that.
Best Answer
In case you want to render raster data then MapTiler (http://www.maptiler.com) can help you.
It produces WMTS conformant map tiles - and once you upload the rendered tile on a standard web server (like your company web) or any cloud hosting (such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage) your map will be available as OGC WMTS - and openable in ArcGIS, QGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet, etc.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5gFXvxWIHM&list=PLGHe6Moaz52PiQd1mO-S9QrCjqSn1v-ay&index=9