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Stephanie came to the NN4D as part of NAVTEQ's acquisition of Mapsolute. Based in Germany, Stephanie is responsible for technical writing, documentation, forum, and email support for Map Reporterand MapTP. Stephanie has a strong blend of technical acumen and documentation subject- matter expertise making her a valuable resource to our organization.

Stephanie received a BSc. in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, and a MSc. in Computer Science from a joint program at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt and from the University of Wisconsin - Platteville. Additionally, she has studied Information and Documentation for two years.

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Kristina made the transition to the partner and developer program team after spending time with NAVTEQ’s consumer group. Kristina provides marketing event support on a global basis for developer-targeted shows and events, including the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge, JavaOne, Symbian Smartphone and others.

Kristina’s experience working within the NAVTEQ sales organization has enabled her to take an immediate lead to ensure that NAVTEQ puts its best presence forward during events. Kristina’s background includes both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history. She strongly believes that NN4D is totally awesome.

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NAVTEQ Attributes

The dictionary defines attributes as: A quality or characteristic inherent in or ascribed to someone or something. In a map context, attributes can be practically anything that can be ascribed directly or indirectly to a location. Map attributes include both static dimensions such as roads, signs, stores, landmarks, rivers as well as dynamic dimensions such as traffic and weather conditions. Attributes are the muscle and sinew—and intelligence—of a digital map database.

The NAVTEQ database specification includes up to 260 data attributes that affect navigation such as access restrictions, one-way streets and speed categories that help optimize navigation.

NAVTEQ attributes describe the essential qualities of a map that are needed to provide an aesthetic and useful map display, and enable route planning and guidance to tourist information to advanced driver assistance systems.

The 14 NAVTEQ attribute categories are:

Link – includes over 50 road classification attributes used to determine an efficient route for a traveler.

Administrative Areas – identifies government entities associated with the sides (left and right) of a link, including country, state, county, city and postal codes.:

Points of Interest (POI) – includes named, geo-coded sites such as banks, gas stations, and restaurants. Over 30 attributes are used to characterize POIs, including 24-hour gas stations, types of food served at restaurants, and phone numbers.

Signs – includes representations of textual and graphic information posted along roadways.

Land Use – includes cartography information, principally covering man-made and natural polygons such as shopping centers, schools, airports, lakes, oceans, parks, golf courses, etc. Over 40 Land Use attributes are covered.:

Country – includes a variety of useful data for a country. Nine attributes are covered, such as Driving Side, Telephone Country Code, and Time Zone.

Nodes – includes intersections, both simple and complex, described through attributes such as:

Aligned (with adjacent region)
X-Coordinate (Longitude)
Y-Coordinate (Latitude)
Z-Level (Height)

Conditions – includes limitations or qualifications for using a road; for instance, gates that restrict access to residents or those with permission, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, and restricted maneuvers, such as a U-turn. Over 20 attributes in three sub-categories are included.

Traffic – includes a standard set of codes for describing traffic conditions, called Radio Data System - Traffic Message Channel (RDS TMC) codes, that include Classes of Traffic Event Types such as roadwork/road closure, accidents, traffic flow, and system availability. These attributes capture information such as event location, extent, and duration.

Generalization – includes attributes such as Intersections, Roads, and Objects that are captured in NAVTEQ's Composite Road Feature (CRF) coding systems, and provide a means for attributing features such as multiple digitized roads, intersections comprised of multiple links and nodes, and ramp interchanges so that these complex features can be generalized. The result is a simplified representation of these features that can be used for more efficient map display and route calculation.

Additional – extends the value of the database and includes conditional speed limits and total number of lanes on a roadway.

Extended Lane Information – includes attributes used to describe connected lanes.

Map Voice Data – delivers phonetic data, a textual representation of how a word is pronounced, as an add-on to the core map database. These phonetic data are called NAVTEQ Map Voice Data™. Use of NAVTEQ's phonetic data permits generally used pronunciation for difficult-to-pronounce and foreign names.

Other – an additional attribute for Direction for Linear Administrative Boundaries, which indicates to which side of the link a name applies.