METHOD OF DETERMINING LOCATION FROM ENCODED SIGNALS REPRESENTING SAID LOCATION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G06Q50/30 G01C21/34 H04W4/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: in the method, for a location fixing point, a candidate node existing in a second digital map is identified, and using fixing point attributes; one candidate line or candidate segment of the second digital map, originating from or identical to said candidate node, is identified; route search is performed within the second digital map between one candidate node and the corresponding candidate line or candidate segment, originating therefrom or identical thereto, and one candidate node for the next location fixing point found in a list, and the corresponding candidate line or candidate segment, originating therefrom or identical thereto, and each line or segment is extracted from said second digital map, which form part of the route defined between said candidate nodes for a successive pair of location fixing points up to and including the final location fixing point found in the list.

EFFECT: faster and more accurate location.

18 cl, 20 dwg