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NAVTEQ True represents a new era in data collection, utilizing technologies unique in the industry in both the scale and quality with which collection of the NAVTEQ map and content can take place. The technology is comprised of best in class technologies in four sensor systems: Positioning, Panoramic Cameras, High Resolution Cameras and Rotating LIDAR.

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NAVTEQ Map Data & Formats

NN4D Technical Resources provide you with the latest documentation, tools, and training to enable successful location-aware development. Here you will find technical articles, developer guides, webinars, and training videos created by NAVTEQ subject-matter experts and members of the NN4D community on NAVTEQ Map Data and Formats.

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NAVTEQ response to the emerging new technology in the industry is RDF (Relational Data Format). RDF is a delivery format which enables developers to directly load NAVTEQ data into a relational database environment. It publishes NAVTEQ data in an easy to understand and well-defined relational structure while combining various data sources and presenting them in a seamless relational format. Key incentives for using RDF are that it’s simple and direct way of accessing NAVTEQ data using standard database technologies.

For example, one can load NAVTEQ data into Oracle database directly and start working with it without the need to build a data loader. Standard access and query tools (SQL) or standard GIS software can be used to access and query or visualize the data.

NAVTEQ provides Oracle with updates on a quarterly basis. However, as administrative boundaries are often relatively stable, Oracle delivers updates with major releases and through online distribution when required.

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NAVSTREETS is a NAVTEQ defined format that enables NAVTEQ data to be uploaded into commercially available GIS tools. NAVSTREETS contains the most navigable attributes available in a database. Utilizing the data to its fullest allows the user to access features such as expressway ramps, complete and correct connectivity of all roadways, one-way streets, physical, logical and legal turn restrictions, construction projects, as well as physical and painted lane dividers. In addition to these navigable attributes, NAVSTREETS provides address ranges down to the level of the correct side of the street. Mapping applications are enhanced with functional classifications of roads, and polygonal representation of features such as airports, aircraft roads, cemeteries, golf courses, hospitals, military bases, parks, national monuments, public use areas, pedestrian zones, shopping centers, sports complexes, university/colleges, and woodlands.

NAVSTREETS is a layered Geographic Information System (GIS) focused representation of NAVTEQ data currently delivered in two different GIS formats, specifically:

ESRI Shapefile format - Layered, GIS-oriented, representation of NAVTEQ data, delivered in ESRI Shapefile format. Compatible with ESRI ArcView™ 3.x and ArcGIS™ 8.x – 9.x software suites.
MapInfo Table format - Layered, GIS-oriented, representation of NAVTEQ data, delivered in MapInfo's native (TAB) format. Compatible with MapInfo Professional® 5.x and above.

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GDF 3.0, a European standard created by Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN), is emerging as the de facto international standard for exchanging navigable databases. GDF has multiple versions, which prevents usage of a single GDF compiler worldwide to serve all map suppliers. GDF enables road network data providers to use a common data publication reference model for their product definition, while allowing users to define their application independent of a specific data provider’s model. This facilitates the exchange of information according to the reference model. The reference model contains the definition of an exchange format, which avoids compatibility problems with both the user and data provider sides of the information flow.

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GDF 3.0 Reference Manual

The Standard interchange Format is a NAVTEQ proprietary format and is based on the NAVTEQ Internal Data Model, previously known as DNDC96. The SIF+ is a textual file, composed of 164 byte fixed length records. The standard defines both the structure and the content of the file. To view SIF+ articles, webinar and other related information, please visit the articles and whitepapers:

NAVTEQ Points of Interest (POIs) and associated reference data are delivered in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. The data in this format include NAVTEQ Core POIs (North America) and Extended Listing POIs (North America). European POI data is slated for delivery in XML format at a later date.

NAVTEQ will use the general XML specification for the delivery of additional POI data sets, including ACSI, Fodor's, Zagat and more. Each POI XML delivery package contains the POI records delivered. The package has several attributes to describe the details of the delivery such as version number and creation time, as well as the applicable directory of reference data.

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The Oracle Delivery Format (ODF) is a standard format for delivering NAVTEQ Maps as Oracle Transportable Table spaces on continental scales. It enables NAVTEQ content to be utilized in the Oracle Enterprise environment. ODF is a 'compiled format' and usage with Oracle Spatial allows developers to quickly and easily deploy mapping, geo-coding and routing services "out of the box". In addition, these contents can easily be utilized with any Oracle-based enterprise application.