Patent ID: 7920872

Claim:
A method for transmitting location-related information from a transmitter to a receiver, the method comprising: downloading the location-related information onto the receiver from an Internet page, the location-related information including a linear object formed by at least one line segment; dividing the linear object into a first set of equidistant coordinate points, wherein a traffic route network stored within a digital map of the receiver is divided into a second set of equidistant coordinate points; for at least one point within the first set of points and for a plurality of potential displacement values, calculating the total number of points in the second set of points that lie within a predetermined radius of the at least one point after the linear object has been shifted according to each displacement value; selecting the displacement value corresponding to the greatest of the calculated totals; matching a portion of the traffic route network to the linear object by decoding the linear object in accordance with the selected displacement value; and updating the digital map with the decoded linear object.