A method to fuse two kinds of digital road maps

Author

Ohsawa, Yutaka ; Miyazaki, Masako

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Saitama Univ., Urawa, Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

17-23 Jun 1996

Firstpage

497

Lastpage

500

Abstract

The acquisition of digital road maps is essential for automobile navigation. Digital road maps are used in Japan by the Digital Road Map Association (DRMA) based on 1/25,000 map. The digital map, however, is unsuitable for town driving. In this situation a more detailed digital road map is requested by the users. To get a detailed digital road map from a paper map is a very expensive operation. We proposed a new method to obtain a more precise digital road map using a more detailed general purpose digital map which has already been published. However, using this digital map directly for auto-navigation is impossible. The method we propose in this paper obtains more detailed road network data from the 1/10,000 map and from the DRMA data

Keywords

automated highways; automobiles; cartography; computerised navigation; driver information systems; town and country planning; DRMA; Digital Road Map Association; Japan; automobile navigation; autonavigation; digital road maps; general purpose digital map; paper map; road network data; town driving; Automobiles; Bidirectional control; Cities and towns; Costs; Fuses; Humans; Mobile computing; Navigation; Roads; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7438-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1996.535898

Filename

535898