On the latest episode of GIS Addressed, Minnesota’s chief geospatial information officer, Dan Ross, says all of those components that make up the road infrastructure play a role in how autonomous vehicles are integrated into the existing transportation ecosystem…

With that many variables, standardization and consistency will be key, Ross says. One huge challenge, he said, are the various levels of government bureaucracy where that data is stored, and the different conflicting ways government might refer to places and things…

Ross says his office has worked to develop standards to enable data sharing in the state government, which would lay a foundation for eventual data digestion by fully autonomous vehicles.
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