Lanelet maps: libLanelet

Author:	Philipp Bender <pbender@fzi.de>
Date:	April 16, 2014

Lanelet maps [1] have been introduced in the context of the autonomous completion of the Bertha-Benz-Memorial-Route in 2013 [2].

The lanelet concept includes a map specification as well as an editing tool chain. The lanelet maps are built on top of

• libLanelet (provided here)
• the OpenStreetMap (OSM) file format [3]
• JOSM, the Java OSM editor [4]
• The RAILS port, which provides the OSM server [5]
• osmosis to retrieve bigger portions of the map from the database [6]

All components are open source and users profit from lanelet maps immediately.