Compression of digital road networks

  • Authors:
  • Jonghyun Suh;Sungwon Jung;Martin Pfeifle;Khoa T. Vo;Marcus Oswald;Gerhard Reinelt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea;Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea;Siemens VDO Automotive, Regensburg, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Heidelberg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SSTD'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advances in spatial and temporal databases
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In the consumer market, there has been an increasing interest in portable navigation systems in the last few years. These systems usually work on digital map databases stored on SD cards. As the price for these SD cards heavily depends on their capacity and as digital map databases are rather space-consuming, relatively high hardware costs go along with digital map databases covering large areas like Europe or the USA. In this paper, we propose new techniques for the compact storage of the most important part of these databases, i.e., the road network data. Our solution applies appropriate techniques from combinatorial optimization, e.g., adapted solutions for the minimum bandwidth problem, and from data mining, e.g., clustering based on suitable distance measures. In a detailed experimental evaluation based on real-world data, we demonstrate the characteristics and benefits of our new approaches.