OpenLR™ - Open, Compact and Royalty-free Dynamic Location Referencing
Welcome to the website of the OpenLR™ project. OpenLR™ is an open source software project launched
by TomTom International B.V. in September 2009. This project provides a royalty-free dynamic location
referencing method which enables reliable data exchange and cross-referencing using digital maps of different
vendors and versions. OpenLR™ will help to enhance existing applications and will generate opportunities
for new services.
Since OpenLR™ is open source everyone is invited to contribute to and to enhance the
exististing solution. This website offers a reference implementation of the OpenLR method and also provides a
complete documentation in terms of software documentation and a technical whitepaper. A detailed presentation on OpenLR™ also addresses both,
technical and business issues.
Additonally we offer an open forum where everyone is invited to discuss topics related location referencing in general
and related to OpenLR™ in particular. You can subscribe for free to our OpenLR™ newsletter if you want to get
the latest news, changes and announcements and you can also report and track issues you experienced with the OpenLR™ software.
A FAQ (frequently asked questions) section shall answer common questions but feel free to contact us directly if
you have further questions or remarks.
- 2010-08-04:
- OpenLR™ software implementation version 1.2.1 released. This version provides a new physical format datex2 which supports the Datex II protocol. Additionally a new Physical Format converter tool converts one physical format into another. An updated version of the Map Viewer tool has been released with functional updates and point location support.
- 2010-07-14:
- OpenLR™ software implementation version 1.2.0 released. This version adds point location support and corresponds to the white paper version 1.3.
- 2010-05-25:
- New white paper version 1.3 released. OpenLR™ now supports point locations and better offsets.
- 2010-04-08:
- The command line interface tool is available in version 1.1.1 fixing a bug with an invalid binary location reference.
- 2010-03-22:
- The command line interface tool and the map access tool from Tele Atlas are now also available as packages including all required 3rd party libraries.
- 2010-03-15:
- Call for comments on changes for point location support and better offsets
- 2010-02-01:
- White paper version 1.2
- OpenLR™ software reference implementation version 1.1.0
- New packages: Data and XML
- New tool MapViewer draw maps based on the OpenLR map interface and provides encoding and decoding
- 2009-12-11:
- White paper version 1.1