Article: How TomTom Make Digital Maps Part 1 of 5
Date: Thursday, August 23 @ 10:36:33 UTC
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This is the first in a series of articles that examines the intricacies of creating and maintaining digital maps by TomTom. This article looks at the Map Geometry, how the roads are discovered and the basemap created.
Essentially the TomTom digital map can be regarded as a series of layers, starting with the basemap defining the geometry of the roads, the next layer provides the map attributes (names, turn restrictions etc), then on top of that comes community contributed content, then we have the 'real road speeds' provided by IQ Routes, and then at the top of the stack is the TomTom HD Traffic.
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