[postgis-users] NAVTEQ Data?

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Adam,

adam at spatialsystems.org wrote:
> I've seen some NAVTEQ data in cars and I like it, better than Tiger
> files.  I also heard it has road speeds in it.
>  
> Has anyone loaded NAVTEQ data into a PostGIS server, is it possible?

We're currently using NavteQ data in shapefile format, and using
shp2pgsql to load it into PostGIS. The NavteQ ShapeFiles are suited
relatively well for map visualisation, but for routing applications,
some advanced attributes are missing, and the data has to be
preprocessed (normalized etc.).

HTH,
Schabi