THE NAVIGABLE DIGITAL STREET MAP IS THE CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR FOR VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND TRANSPORT INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN EUROPE
A. Bastiaansen · Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Future. Abstracts of the Third World Congress on Intelligent Transport SystemsITS America · 1996
The evolution of the concept of vehicle navigation and information systems has consequences for the quality and content of digital road maps. The paper focuses on the fact that navigable digital street maps are one of the critical success factors for vehicle navigation and information systems. Attention will be given to the establishment of a framework and the development of GDF as a standard for digital road maps which made the production of a European navigable digital street map possible. In the presentation an overview of the availability of navigable street maps for the different European countries will be given. This presentation further points out to future market possibilities which are made possible through the availability of uniform European geographical information.