摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for providing a description of a road segment using locations stored in a geographic database, the description of the road segment being output to a user, the road segment being identified in the geographic database on the basis of location reference points allowing a unique identification of said road segment in the geographic database based on a Dynamic Location references technique according to ISO 17572-3, the method comprising the steps of: - providing two first location reference points with which a greater road section including said road segment is described, wherein one of the two first location reference points corresponds to a first end of said greater road section and the other of the two first location reference points corresponds to a second end of said greater road section, - providing two second location reference points with which the road segment within said greater road section is described, wherein one of the two second location reference points corresponds to a first end of said road segment and the other of the two second location reference points corresponds to a second end of said road segment, the road segment being described using the first two location reference points and the second two location reference points.