Navteq, a global provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation, has collaborated with IBM to enable Navteq RDF format users to take advantage of the power of IBM’s DB2 database management system.
Navteq, which also provides location-based solutions and business applications, says the availability of Navteq Map data in DB2 provides customers with an “extended spatial management solution”. The DB2 Spatial Extender allows users to store, manage, and analyse spatial data and to exploit the spatial relationships between features. For example, the locations of office buildings can be managed according to risk areas or demographics analysed to optimise store locations.
Navteq’s detailed navigable street level map data brings significant benefits to IBM’s enterprise database users by providing a globally consistent specification for geocoding, street level network-based analysis and cartographic visualisation.
With DB2 and its spatial extender now compliant with Navteq data, it provides the basis for building robust spatial applications using international and industry standard interfaces. It comes with a free Eclipse-based developer workbench and is tightly integrated with leading standards such as PHP, Java and .NET. It runs on multiple platforms from PDAs or mobiles, to Linux, Windows and UNIX.
The collaboration between Navteq and IBM was aimed at simplifying and expanding the use of map data in commercial, public sector and business intelligence applications.
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