A flight analytics system may receive, from a flight recorder of an aircraft, flight data corresponding to one or more routes flown by the aircraft. The flight analytics system may obtain, based on a downlink message sent by the aircraft in-flight, version...

Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for performing conflation between target road polylines and source road polylines stored in GIS databases. A pairing of a target road polyline and a source road polyline is obtained. The target ro...

In some aspects, an ego vehicle obtains, at a first timestamp, one or more first components of a high-definition (HD) map represented by a first set of polylines, obtains, at a second timestamp subsequent to the first timestamp, one or more second componen...

An approach is provided for providing instantaneous and efficient mapping of geographic locations on to a schematic map. A map generation platform designates one or more reference locations for creating at least one schematic map associated with at least o...

Custom geographic databases are created by analyzing a geographic database to determine database structure elements. The database structure elements may involve road attributes or points of interest. Database structure elements are then selected to include...

The device has a reading unit for reading navigation data of an aircraft, and a display unit for displaying and positioning a current course of the aircraft by a stationary reference system (1) i.e. course indicator, in a central part (30) of a display zon...

The invention is directed to a navigation system comprising a non-volatile, writable memory for storing digital navigation data and a means for checking an access code to allow the access of digital navigation data stored in the memory.

When searching for a route, a version information of a map information stored in a memory of terminal unit (300) is sent to a server unit (400). The server unit (400) searches for a travel route according to a map information stored in a storage thereof. T...

The navigation apparatus (7) stores map data (M) used to display map to the user as well as use history information of the map data. The use history information of the map data indicates a Frequency of Use of the map data in the past and so on. When the na...

A map database apparatus according to the present invention manages roads by expressing the roads as link strings. Each of the link strings is constituted by connecting a plurality of links, each of the links has nodes at a front end and a rear end respect...