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To illustrate such map differences, the figure below shows a small section of 2025 maps of two vendors near the Sophie Vitringastraat in Hoorn, The Netherlands.
The A possible location of interest is indicated with an orange highlight.

• In the map of vendor A, this road section has a sharp turn, and has a single road name "Sophie Vitringastraat". 
  In the map of vendor B, this road section has a more gradual turn, and halfway the road name changes to "Mathilde Wibautstraat".
• In the map of Vendor B, an extra side road is present near the top of the location, which is missing in the map of vendor A.

Thus, This example illustrates that real-world maps must be expected to have differences in geometry, topology, and further attributes such as road names.

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Accurately matching locations across maps from different providers requires a method that can handle such differences between maps —  such a method is termed a "map-agnostic location referencing method".
Any map-agnostic location referencing must ensure that the intended location can be correctly identified, no matter which map is used to create the location reference and which map is used to match the location reference.

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