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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2002
Rajashri Joshi, Chicago, IL (US);
Navigation Technologies Corp., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method of determining geographic feature association between geographic features of a first geographic database and a second geographic database builds a proximity matrix having a proximity value element for each of the features of the first geographic database as compared to each of the features of the second geographic database. A singular value decomposition of the proximity matrix is computed, and the singular value decomposition is converted into an association matrix. Using the association matrix, the method identifies an associated feature pair having one feature of the first geographic database and one feature of the second geographic database.