A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING POSITION INFORMATION

摘要

The entire block of the transmission area of information such as shape vector data representing road shape and event information is divided into partitions of a plurality of layers and block definition is made so that the data amount in each partition is approximately equal. The transmitting side generates and transmits shape vector data, event information, shape vector index data including reference data indicating correspondence between the block definition and each partition, and a shape vector list indicating shape vector data contained in each partition. The receiving side calculates partitions necessary for processing and extracts shape vector data contained in the partitions based on the shape vector index data and the shape vector list, then performs shape matching of the extracted shape vector data and identifies the section and the position in the section on the map to which the event information corresponds. <IMAGE>