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This example illustrates that real-world maps must be expected to have differences in geometry, topology, and further attributes such as road names.
Accurately matching locations across maps from different providers requires a method that can handle such these 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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