Project News: FeedMAP workshop on 9 October 2008, Trento, Italy

Date: 11 July 2008

On 09 October 2008, the ERTICO-coordinated FeedMAP project will hold its final workshop in Trento (Italy) to present and showcase its final results.

The FeedMAP consortium has studied the commercial and technical feasibility of map deviation feedback. The project has developed a framework to detect map anomalies.  If a car encounters a faulty map attribute, the maps of all other vehicles are instantly updated, using a standardised mechanism for delivering incremental map updates as developed in the ActMAP project. FeedMAP’s main focus is on static and semi-static changes to the road network. In addition, real-time status reports on events such as traffic jams or accidents can be verified and returned to the system with the same mechanism.
  
The FeedMAP event on 9 October will feature an extensive set of presentations and demonstrations of the project’s achievements. Part of the day will be dedicated to some brief presentations describing the FeedMAP concepts, architecture and validation results. Attendees will also have the opportunity of testing the FeedMAP concept in a number of equipped vehicles and computer demonstrations. All FeedMAP components (FeedMAP clients, Service Centres, Map Centres and ActMAP service centres) will be presented at this promising workshop as well as some specific deviation detections such as wrong or missing road geometry data, missing or outdated information on speed limits, or wrong or missing information on turn restrictions. The entire chain from the release of Map Deviation Reports to the generation of ActMAP updates will be demonstrated.

The registration process has just opened. Please visit www.ertico.com/feedmap to register online. Further details about the precise venue will shortly be communicated.

For further information about this event, please consult the FeedMAP website and register for the FeedMAP forum, or alternatively contact the project team at feedmap_info@mail.ertico.com