As a leading company in the field of Maps&Navigation services, our team faced a significant challenge in keeping up with the latest safety European regulations for motor vehicles concerning their Intelligent Speed Assistant (ISA) systems. To comply with these high requirements (that will be mandatory for EU Member States to share map updates), we needed a solution that would allow HERE Maps to update navigable attributes from our road network database in multiple countries quickly and accurately. We turned to TN-ITS and FME's software to help us achieve our goals. The TN-ITS Platform is a multi-stakeholder association coordinated by ERTICO to support EU Policy on Map Update Exchange. The TN-ITS Platform links road operators with digital map providers to facilitate map updates, with a focus on speed limits, in a standardized way. Seen this platform as an API, providing a standardized way for national authorities to share data with third-party parties. Consequently, it enabled us to receive and bring up-to-date information about road attributes, such as speed limits and traffic signs, from national authorities in multiple countries. FME enabled us to process and integrate this data seamlessly into our end-user navigation systems in an automated way. Our success with TN-ITS and FME's software was not without its challenges. We had to navigate complex technical requirements to establish data exchange with national authorities in multiple countries through the TN-ITS schema. We also had to ensure the accuracy and consistency of the data we received and processed. However, FME allowed us to bridge the gap between different national authorities, streamlining our data processing workflows, eradicating any manual intervention, and increasing efficiency on road attributes from different countries. Summing up, the scope achieved with the connection, data load, filtering, attribute comparison and data storage into local databases. At Bonn’s conference, we will share our experience of this journey, and our goal is to inspire other FME users to leverage the power of FME with data interaction along different protocols and data schemas.

1. How TN-ITS and FME helped
HERE with UniMap Stay on the
Speed Limit

2. Presenter
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Juanma Anera
Sr. GIS Data Engineer
Here Technologies

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Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Concepts
3. FME process developed
4. Conclusion

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Introduction

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How can we
automatically Update
Speed Limits on Roads?

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This is all about Speed Limits mapping!
Can you build the perfect worldwide SL maintenance process?
Of course not, but let’s get closer to that.
So, what’s your idea?
I’ll show you at “The Peak of Data Integration”!

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Some concepts to know before the show…
• TN-ITS and ISA
• UniMap
• Speed Limits

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TN-ITS: a trusted
Data Exchange
Data
Sources
End User
Road Authorities publish
changes of road data
Fresh map data in vehicles,
navigation devices, roadside
units, traffic control centres
Map makers retrieve, verify
and integrate these changes
in their platform and bring
this to map users
Road
Authorities
Map makers
Service
Providers
National Access Points

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TN-ITS: a trusted
Data Exchange
5 Operational
• Sweden
• Finland
• Belgium (Flanders)
• Netherlands
• Hungary
9 Pilot
• United Kingdom
• Cyprus
• Greece
• Portugal
• Spain
• Slovenia
• Ireland
• France
• Lithuania

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ISA: New EU rules

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UniMap: A new era
of mapmaking
Introducing UniMap
2023 Shrinks detection-to-the-map time
to hours, minutes or seconds
Customers can combine datasets
and create new products in hours
Semantic consistency across SD,
HD and other map content
HERE’s new automated mapping system
revolutionizes how maps are created,
updated and used.
UniMap rapidly fuses large quantities of data
from diverse sources – including vehicle
sensors, industrial lidar and satellites – into a
fully aligned and unified global map, stored in a
single environment.

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Speed Limits: hottest topic
for navigable Map Makers
Every single contribution from any kind of source let us know the CURRENT Speed Limit on a Navigable
Road.
Advanced Driver
Assistance Systems
(ADAS)
Highly Automated
Driving (HAD)
Road safety &
awareness
Route
optimization
Tour
planning

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Finding new ways for Updating Speed Limits on
our Maps
Diverse inputs to get this road info:
• Real-time probe and sensor data.
• Self-driving roads.
• Communities.
• …, and
• 3rd
Party data: Road Authorities.

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"Data is a precious resource that, if used
responsibly and collaboratively, can empower
individuals, organizations, and societies to
make informed decisions and drive meaningful
change." - United Nations Data Revolution
Group

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Let’s build something with FME

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Process overview

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Formats involved
HTML + XML S3 Bucket PostgreSQL Tables
FileGDB
HTTP Post req
Upload FileGDB into HTML JIRA system.
Read HTML sites and access to each XML country repository.
Download and Store each XML document into an AWS S3 bucket.
Read each XML document and store the WKT GEOMETRY into a PostGIS table.
It was needed:

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Let’s now go Step-by-Step
1st step: Connect through each API. Example Belgium.
https://opendata.apps.mow.vlaanderen.be/tn-its/rest/dataset/v2

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Let’s now go Step-by-Step
1st step: Connect through each API. Example Belgium.
Read and List all XML files from TN-ITS BEL repo.
List all XML files from our AWS S3 bucket
S3 store only what needed
FMESERVER VERSION

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We do care about statistics
List all XML files from our AWS S3 bucket
List all features from PostgreSQL table
Store any new feature into PostgreSQL table
FMESERVER VERSION

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Extracting valuable data from XML

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Extracting valuable data from XML
List all BEL XML files from our AWS S3 bucket
List all BEL features from PostgreSQL table
Tag if Linear or Point data from XML
Pushing BEL data into PostGIS table
Extract all XML data needed (UUID, Geo, SL,
Timestamp…)

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Extracting valuable data from XML

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~3,6M records from BEL

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Extracting valuable data from XML
FMESERVER VERSION

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Converting into FileGDB
Data is submitted to JIRA system in form of FileGDB with all the new features from that week.
Once we have a process running daily storing data… We need to make use of it.

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Connecting to next Process
Jira
Ticket
Onboardi
ng
Processin
g
Deliver
CMS UTM

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Conclusion

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Hallo, you remember me?
Sure! How did you find the presentation?
…Time for QA, right?
Shoot!

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Amazing!
So, summing up…
You’re taking free available geo-data from various
country-wide Road Authorities (TN-IT… don’t recall),
Extract data and attributes your Company needs,
Store what needed, and pushing again into your
“comparison” tool to allow or not the Update on your
Roads… and without even pushing a button…
Right??!!
Cannot be better explained!

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Ready for giving another chance
to your National Authority APIs?

32. Danke!!
juanma.anera@here.com