Mapmaker AND provides MapFusion to Dutch government to enable autonomous driving
March 20 2018 - 2:30AM
Collected through the on-board car sensors of
Brabant roadside inspectors vehicles, AND's MapFusion automatically
keeps map and location data up-to-date
Capelle aan den IJssel, the Netherlands, 20
March 2018 - AND is happy to announce a collaboration with Talking Maps, a pilot with the Ministry
of Infrastructure and Water Management, the province of
Noord-Brabant and V-Tron. AND ensures that data collected by smart
cameras in the vehicles of roadside inspectors automatically
improves, updates and enriches map and location data via
MapFusion.
This collaboration starts with a pilot where the focus is on
improving, updating and enriching HD Maps with road marking and
traffic signs on the Maasvlakte-Venlo corridor, covering approx.
200 km. The next phase will be set up on the basis of the pilot
results. HD Maps provide a highly accurate model of the road
network which enables the self-driving car to manoeuvre very
accurately and determine its exact location. This is critical for
advanced driving applications and cooperative and autonomous
driving.
AND follows the trend in the automotive sector of more and more
vehicles getting connected to the Internet and equipped with
advanced sensors. Map and location data are an essential component
for more advanced safety, eco-efficiency, comfort and autonomous
driving. The conventional way of creating maps no longer fulfills
the requirements of these modern functions and systems. AND's
MapFusion not only ensures an unprecedented richness and accuracy
of map data, but also delivers it at substantially lower costs.
Earlier, AND announced its collaboration with Continental to
automatically enrich and maintain digital maps.
Hugo van der Linde, CEO AND: "We are very excited to use our
MapFusion technology, together with V-Tron, for knowledge questions
of governments and other Talking Traffic partners. AND
automatically integrates data from the car to create highly
detailed and up-to-date maps. With this pilot AND aims to provide
fresh data and give an extra boost for autonomous and cooperative
driving with both passenger cars and trucks in the
Netherlands."
Initially cars from the Brabant roadside inspectors will be used
for this pilot. Later, other road authorities are likely to join
the Talking Maps trail, which means that even more vehicles will be
collecting data.
Intertraffic
The Talking Maps project will be kicked off this afternoon at 14:00
at the international mobility fair Intertraffic Amsterdam at the
RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam. You are welcome to attend. For
more information you can visit the program SmartwayZ.NL: 08.304,
Smart Mobility Hall, Intertraffic Amsterdam.
About AND
AND is one of only four companies that offer worldwide proprietary
digital map data and the only independent one. AND thereby focuses
on innovative map data technologies to create better and more
relevant map data.
This is an English translation of the Dutch press
release. In the event of any disparity between the Dutch original
and this translation, the Dutch text will prevail.
Note for editor, not for
publication:
For further information, please
contact Hugo van der Linde on 0031-10-8851200 or go to
www.and.com
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