Navigation Data Standard
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| Type | Not for Profit Consortium |
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| Headquarters | c/o EECF/2, Navigation Volkswagen AG Berliner Ring 2 D-38440 Wolfsburg Germany |
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| Website | www |
Navigation Data Standard (NDS) is a standardized format for automotive-grade navigation databases, jointly developed by automobile manufacturers and suppliers. NDS is an association registered in Germany. Members are automotive OEMs, map data providers, and navigation device/application providers.
NDS aims at developing a standardized binary database format that allows the exchange of navigation data between different systems. NDS separates navigation software from navigation data, thus enhancing flexibility for creating various navigation products for end users. In addition to this interoperability, NDS databases support incremental updates, protection against illegal use, and compactness.
NDS products have been available in the market since 2012, among others in BMW,Daimler, and Volkswagen cars.
The vision of NDS is to provide a leading world-wide map standard for automotive-grade use. A “leading standard” means that the map format shall:
“Automotive grade” implies that:
To realize this vision, NDS pursues the following goals:
To support the adoption of the navigation standard and reach its goals, NDS supports NDS projects (e.g. by providing tools and support), constantly develops the standard technically, and aims at enlarging the association.
NDS uses the SQLite Database File Format. An NDS database can consist of several product databases, and each product database may be divided further into update regions. This concept supports a flexible and consistent versioning concept for NDS databases and makes it possible to integrate databases from different database suppliers into one NDS database. The inner structure of databases complying with Navigation Data Standard is further characterized by building blocks, levels and the content itself.
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