Matching Positions to the Road Network

The position matching tries to assign one single GPS position to a segment on a digital map.

Benefits

• Consider the heading of the positions.
• Get the id of a matching segment for further use cases like custom Feature Layers.

Prerequisites

Please ensure following prerequisites are fulfilled before you start with the use case:

• Installed and licensed PTV xMatch Service

Programming Guide

The following sample illustrates the basic steps that are necessary to match a GPS position with the matchPositions web service A web service represents a communication technology applied in computer networks. It provides an interface described in a machine-processable format, for example WSDL. API and visualize it on the map:

Related Topics

The following topics might be relevant for this use case.

• Match a GPS track to the road network
• Reverse geocoding an input position