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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul Dominique Marie Etienne Lahaije, Maastricht, NL;
Ernst-Peter Neukirchner, Hildesheim, DE;
Hans-Ulrich Otto, Hildesheim, DE;
Assignee:
Mannesmann VDO AG, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/120 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/120 ;
Abstract
A digital map with line features is stored on a storage medium into parcels, each covering a certain area of the map. A parcel has around it standard border a border region bounded by an inner border and an outer border. A line feature crossing the standard border between two neighboring parcels is only divided into two new line features if it completely crosses the border region, i.e. if it crosses the outer border of both neighboring parcels.