METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING/PROCESSING A SPATIAL-DATA-CHANGE MESSAGE

摘要

A method of generating a map-agnostic spatial-data-change message is disclosed. The method comprises - acquiring an indication of a spatial-data-change; - selecting one or more map elements from a master digital map to be associated with the spatial-data-change to specify the location of the spatial-data-change; - generating an event comprising for each of said one or more map elements a dynamic location reference and a description corresponding to the spatial-data-change; - generating meta data associated with the event; - combining the event and the meta data to obtain the map-agnostic spatial-data-change message. Furthermore, a method of processing a map-agnostic spatial-data-change message is disclosed. The invention enables map-applications to update their application digital map database with data that is coming from different sources and that is based on different master map databases.