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FAQs on topics related to Location Referencing
TISA provides Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Best Practice information (How-to) for topics related to Location Referencing on digital maps.
These FAQs and Best Practice information are incrementally made available as work product of TISA's Location Referencing Work Group.
Location Referencing
Location referencing is a foundational concept in intelligent transport systems (ITS), enabling the exchange of spatial information—such as traffic events, route segments, or points of interest—between systems that may use different digital maps. To ensure interoperability, location references must be interpretable regardless of the underlying map provider, geometry, or data model.
Two main approaches exist: pre-coded location referencing and dynamic location referencing.
- Pre-coded location referencing, such as used in RDS-TMC or GERS, relies on predefined location tables. Each location is assigned a unique identifier, which is referenced in messages. This method is compact and efficient but limited in flexibility. Only locations present in a pre-agreed table and appropriately tagged in a digital map can be referenced. Updates require coordination between table-owners, map providers, content and service providers, and receiver manufacturers. This makes it not suitable for dynamic or ad-hoc location encoding.
- Dynamic location referencing, by contrast, allows any location to be encoded on-the-fly using semantic and geometric attributes. This approach is map-agnostic and supports real-time applications such as traffic incident reporting, navigation, and routing. Experience has shown thatrelying solely on coordinates does not ensure reliable matching of location references across different maps. A notable method in this category is OpenLR™ : a widely adopted open-source dynamic location referencing method used extensively across the ITS eco-system.
Location Referencing Methods
The table Overview of Location Referencing Methods provides a (non-exhaustive) overview of the many location referencing methods and variants used in the ITS eco-system.
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