Creating a digital road network for Europe: experience from the PANDORA project

The Automobile Association, Ordnance Survey, Philips BV and Robert Bosch GmbH have collaborated in a DRIVE project to create and test a prototype navigation database. The data requirements of future vehicle navigation systems were examined. Digital street networks were extracted mainly from Ordnance Survey´s large-scale digital mapping and the necessary road and traffic attributes were collected by the AA. These data were integrated into a specially designed prototype database for parts of London and Birmingham and the major interconnecting roads. Data were abstracted from the database and supplied to Bosch and Philips using the GDF standard developed in the DEMETER project. This dataset was then tested in field trials using prototype systems