Beaches, dunes and expanses of sand or pebbles in coastal or continental locations, including beds of stream channels with torrebtial regime. Area covered with airport installations: runways, buildings and associated land. Area covered with Landfill or mine dump sites, industrial or public. 1 Area where most of the land is covered by buildings, roads and artificially surfaced areas The average speed of vehicles travelling along a Road Element (km/h) This will be typical place where one can change transport mode or access a feature in a mutli-modal environment, e.g. stations, airports or car parks. A building or place for the preservation and/or exhibition of artistic, historic or scientific objects. An institution of higher education. Vegetation formation composed principally of trees, including shrub and bush understories. Special legal restrictions placed upon the use of a particular Road Element 1 The period, for which a value defined in a attribute is valid 1 1 Fee to be paid in a certain currency to travel on (a section of) a toll road 1 1 1 Service is a generic term for an activity at a specific location. It is important to notice that a Service represents an ACTIVITY and NOT the building in which this activity (possibly) takes place. Many services are particulary relevant to the road environement, szcg as recreation, vehicle maintenance, emergency services or cargo, customs and retail services. 1 1 Certain aspects of the physical form that a Road Element takes. It is based on a number of certain physical and traffic properties. Areas covered with motorways, railways, including associated installations (stations, platforms, embankments). An establishment that sells cars. The start point of a ski lifr. A transport company's offices or cargo points where transport services of cargo on road, rail, water or air are offered. A phone which is available for public use. It may be within a building or on the street. It might be coin-operated or card-operated. The maximum total weight of a vehicle that may use the Feature. A location where mobile medical help is stationed. Indication of a physical barrier on a Road Element 1 1 Bushy vegetation, generally with low cover and with no or scattered trees. 1 The legal maximum length of a vehicle that may use the Feature Any establishment offering meals for payment including site down meals or fast food take-aways. Hotels or Public Houses may be included in this Feature. A border post between two countries. An outdoor area of land designated as open to the public for general recreation. 1 A timetable contains information about all departure times for public transportation or ferry vehicles on a Route Section, or on a Ferry Connection. Beside the start time, the timetable also contains information about the waiting time and the duration needed to travel along this section. 1 1 A car park restricted for Coach and Lorry use only. Artifical surface and infrastructure associated with transportation and/or an industrial activity. An official site where a caravan may be pitched. The site need not be for sole use by caravans. Railways are similar to roads in that their constituent elements together form a network. A railway network may therefore be considered to be made up pf o number of Railway Elements that are connected by means Railway Element Junctions. The Level 2 representation of a crossing which bounds a Road or a Ferry. It is a Complex Feature composed of one or more Level 1 Junctions, Road Elements and Enclosed Traffic Areas. 1 Bushy sclerophyllous vegetation. Includes maquis and garrigue. Marquis: a dense vegetation associated composed of a number of shrubs associated with siliceous soils in the Mediterranean environment. Garrigue: discontinous bushy associations of Mediterranean clcareous plateaus. Generally composed of kermes oaks, arbutus, lavender, thyme, cistus, etc. Many include a few isolated trees. Area covered with infrstructure of Port Area, including quays, dockyards and marinas. Bushy or herbaceous vegetation with scattered trees. Can represent either woodland degradation or forest regeneration/colonization. Cultivated area with vegetation dedicated to leisure, sports and recreation activities or used as cemetry. Information about an accident registered by an appropiate organization A roadside location where parking is available and meals are served. A location where wild animals are kept for educational reasons, and which is open for the public. A national club or subscription-based organisation offering services and facilities for motorists. An office that sells tickets for travel by rail, road, air or water for local, national or international travel. A facility for loading and unloading passengers and goods travelling on a rail network. A location where mobile crews and vehicles for firefighting and rescue operations are stationed. The access point or check-in area for a given ferry company. A location specifically designated as having a scenic view. 1 1 The location reference code of a certain location according to a certain location referencing system A docking and service facility for pleasure craft. 1 The maximum width limit of a vehicle that may use the Feature. The limit is normally set by a physical obstruction such as a bridge or a legal restriction Any phsical or natural Feature that may be of interest to a tourist. 1 1 A linear section of the earth which is designed for or the result of vehicular movement. It serves as the smallest unit of the road network at Level 1 that is independent and having a Junction at each end. 1 1 An Adress Area Boundry Element describes the outer confinement of an Address Area. An Adress Area Boundry Element is start and end bounded with the road network. At least one of the edges defining the complete boundry of an Address Area has also to be referenced by a Road Element which is connected to the rest of the road network 2 The location where three or more Railway Elements meet or where Railway Elements ends. A terminus where a person may board either a local bus service or a long distance or a national/international coach. A Public Transportation Junction is located at the intersection of two or more Route Links, or at the end of a dead end Route Link. A Public Transportation Junction should be introduced at the location where three or more Route Links meet. This happens when e.g. two Routes branch off. Location where the main activities of a particular business activity are concentrated 1 A Route_Section is the way between two Stop Points in a route. It is added to the GDF-Scheme to have the possibility to add timetables to Routes. 1 1 2 An establishement where lodging is available to all memebers of the public for one or more nights. The nature of the establishement need not be strictly a hotel. Places such as public houses, guesthouses and inns with available rooms may be included in this feature. It excludes establishments offering accomondations to special needs groups such as socially disadvantaged persons. Also exluded are prival rental accomondation establishments and holiday homes. A facility specially designed for swimming or related water activities. A free emergency telephone with direct line to an emergeny service centre. An institute for the transaction of the monetary services. In some countries the building societies and some post offices may be incorparated into this category Surface resulting from excavation, mine dump or landfill. An office or facility for the police. Inland or coastal area seasonally, tidally or permanently waterlogged. This Position which adequately describes a central activity point of a settlement. It will typically be the town hall, central train station or other central activity centre (i.e. church or pedestrian district). An athletic or sports ground with tiers of seats for spectactors. An indoor sports facility or an outdoor location where any sport such as golf, riding, sailing etc. may be enjoyed. All elements regarding the public transportation network are grouped ina Feature Theme called Public Transport. Thise theme contains all the public transport basic Features that can be related with a geometrical position. 1 1 Land covered with glaciers or permanent snowfields. A location where advice can be obtained on local or national tourist attractions. 1 The direction(s) of traffic flow allowed on a Feature 1 1 Indicates that the associated Road Element has a seperate Emergency Vehicle Lane Large buildings where large public shows, or large groups of people whould meet for consultation or discussion. Surface modified by humans, usually resulting from construction activities, and created to serve dedicated purposes. An office for local, regional or national government activities. A public facility that provides postal or telecommunication services. An area containing addresses which cannot be related to one ore more Road Element. - In certain situations addresses are defined in a square, which has a name that is different from the name of the Road Element representing the road network on that square. - The addresses are defined according to building blocks. In these cases a building block has a name which differs from the name of an adjancent building vlock and of the Road Element which possibly divides the two building blocks. An Adress Area should always have a connection with the road network A feature that bounds a Road Element or a Ferry Connection. A Road Element or Ferry Connection always forms a connection between two Junctions and, a Road Element or Ferry Connection is always bounded by exactly two Junctions. A Junction feature represents the physical connection between it’s adjoining Road Elements and Ferry Connections. A place where medical and surgical treatment is provided for ill and injured persons. A building, monument, or site with important historical or cultural value. An access point for non-passenger goods, such as within an airport. A park that contains rides or other entertainment which may be based on a central theme. Land Cover And Use provide contextual information about the coverage of the earth's surface. Many of the Land Cover And Use types are hierarchical in structure, being further subdivided into subtypes. Includes steppes, tundra and badlands. Scattered high-attitude vegetation. Stop Points are modelled differently than Public Transport Points because of their relation to Road Elements and Services. This will be typical place where one can change transport mode in a mutli-modal environment. A large shop which sells different types of goods from within the one shop. A car park typically within a building. May be subterranean or multi-storey. Areas with open-pit extraction of industrial minerals (sandpits, quarries) or other minerals (open cast mines). Includes flooded gravel pits, except for river-bed extraction. A computer terminal that allows bank customers to deposit, withdraw, or transfer funds without the assistance of a bank teller. Vegetated area that is cultivated to grow crops or fruits, or used for grazing. In most cases, the complex Featue Line consists of two Routes, one for each direction on the Line. If alternative routes are defined a Line can have more than two Routes 1 1 The location where a fee is paid to travel on a road. Areas affected by recent fires, still mainly black. Stop Areas are defined as a collection of stop points where passangers can change lines at walking distance. Typically stop areas are bus stations or several bus stops at a single intersection Where general drugs and remedies to the general public are saled. 1 1 0 Area with vegetation within urban fabric. Includes parks and cemetries with vegetation. 1 A place in which literary, musical, artists, or reference materials are kept for use and circulation, but are not for sale. An official site where a tent may be pitched. The site need not be for sole use by tents. A location for pre-school education. Spaces under construction development, soil or bedrock excavations, earthworks. Vegetated area covered with trees and/or bushy vegetation. 1 Whether a Feature is currently under construction or in the planning stage Information about the existence of a physical or legal divieder along a Road Element which is not expressed by the individual Features. 1 1 All public transportation locations can be described by Public Transport Points. This point can have a clear physical meaning, like an activation point or a measuring point, but this is not required. The Attribute Public Transport Point Type will indicate the point type. The maximum height limit of a vehicle that may use the Feature. The limit is normally set by a physical obstruction such as a bridge or tunnel, or a legal restriction 1 A facility for wine making, which also include wine tasting, wine sales, and winery tours. Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. Scree, cliffs, rocks and outcrops. An Enclosed Traffic Area Boundry describes the outer confinement of an Enclosed Traffic Area. An Enclosed Traffic is start and end bounded with the road network. At least one of the edges defining the complete boundry of an Enclosed Traffic has also to be referenced by a Road Element which is connected to the rest of the road network A building or an outdoor area where performances of drama are given. A location where First Aid is available. 2 1 A route is a grouping of Route Sections in order to form physical path that a public transport vehicle can follow. A public transport line will normally have one Route in each direction. Alternative routes could be defined for the exceptional circumstances (e.g. one day a week when the bus follows a different path) A garage or service station offering petrol for sale. A garage or service station open to the public where repairs on a vehicle are carried out. 1 Man made structure or structure occupied by people or goods. Building is included to represent the physical presence of these structures. Neighbouring buildings can be grouped into one single building Feature. An area surrounded by water, possibly connected to other land by means of a bridge or tunnel accessible by ferry. A building or location used for instructional classes. (See also Unversity or College). 1 A shop or facility where products can be purchased under a reduced tarif structure. Point of greatest altitude of a mountain pass. 1 Facilities and activites for the benefit of local community only. They typically cater to special interest groups, such as youth, elderly, or 'handicapped'. A facility designated and maintained for playing golf. The road network is seen here primarily from the viewport of transportation and traffic. Ferry connections are therefore placed together with road network elements in one theme. 1 The Number of Lanes Attribute refers to the total number of lanes associated with one particular driving direction which are present on a certain Road Element. If this Attribute appears once with one Road Element without a side indication, it indicates that both driving directions have the same number of lanes or, in case there is only one driving direction, the total number of lanes. In case two different driving directions on a Road Element have a differernt number of lanes, each number can be specified by a different Attribute Value in combination with side indication 1 The one-way travel time that a Ferry Connection takes to complete journey Low productivity grassland. Often situated in areas of rough uneven ground. Frequently includes rocky areas, briars and heathland. Vegetation with low and closed cover, dominated by bushes,shrubs and herbaceaous plants (heath, briars, broom, gorse, laburnum, etc.). An establishemnt whose primary purpose is providing facilities for gambling. A down hill or cross-country ski facility 1 1 1 The set of house numbers that is related to one side of a particular road element or to a particular Address Area Boundry Element. It is a comma seperated list of numbers from the first to the last house number of the element, excluding the first and last number. 1 A facility used for showing movies to a large audience. This is a service where one can change transport mode in a mutli-modal environment, e.g. stations, airports or car parks. 1 1 1 Site where to pick up or return rental cars. Artifically surfaced areas (with concrete, asphalt, tarmacadam, or stabilised, eg. beaten earth) devoid of vegetation, occupy most of the area in question, which also contains biuldings and/or vegetated areas. An airfield which accomodates either cargo or passenger traffix of a commercial or private nature 1 A service located along freeways offering ine or more recreational facilites or service functions to the car driver. Area with little or no vegetation, such as sandy or rocky areas, permanent ice or snow, or sparsely vegetated high altitude areas. 1 City or Town Council Offices Ground-level car and commercial vehicle parking locations. A large purpose-built building within many individual shops trade. Area with camping ground, sport ground, leisure park, golf course, racecourse. A large building within which any goods or items may be stored for the short or long term. A building that houses courts of law. A Railway Element is the smallest independant part of the railway network, and is bounded by two Railway Element Junctions. A facility designed for bowling The office or residence of the ambassador and entourage of a foreign country. 1 A Route Link can be part of serveral public transport routes. A Route Link has one Public Transport Junction at each end. Since Route Links are the smallest unit of the Public Transport network, they may not overlap with other Route Links. In the case where two or more routes share the same physical path, only one Route Links should be defined. This Route Link will be shared by multiple Routes. Compared to the original GDF-Format a Stop Point is also a Public Transport Junction. Thus a Route Link in GDF is splitted at each Stop Point into two parts. With this movement along a part can be realised. A building where a member of the general public may go for prayer or to take part in a religious service. 1 Probability of a traffic jam on a Road Element See Average_Vehicle_Speed See Form_of_Way See Direction_of_Traffic_Flow See Construction_Status see Blocked_Passage see Accident See Divider See Special_Restriction See House_Number_Range See Emergency_Vehicle_Lane See Number_of_Lanes See Maximum_Total_Weight_Allowed see Timetable The position where the specific information (icon, image, text) is displayed on the map. It has only a graphical aspect. if the route is a circular route, two different Route_Sections join at the given route_Start_Stop_Point. So if the route is a circular route, this attribute must be given to determin which of those two route_Sections is the first. See Traffic_Jam_Sensitivity See Maximum_Number_of_Lanes See Toll See Maximum_Height_Allowed See Validity_Period the Transfer_Point where a Feature is accessible at walking distance. It might e.g. be a Stop_Point, a Building, or even a Road_Element or a Junction, when already beeing walking, or driving with taxi. See Location_Reference See Minimum_Number_of_Lanes See Maximum_Length_Allowed See Maximum_Width_Allowed The route Number is the ID-number of a particular route in a given road network as Attributed by a national, sub-national or international organization. Rigid Flexible Gravel Dirt Blocks The type of surface a paved Road Element has. Concrete is a rigid surface Asphalt is a flexible surface Cobblestone is a block surface The type of Beaches/Dune and Sand_Plains Beach/Dune Other Desert An Indication of the presence of a physical or legal divider which seperates opposing lanes of traffic. The type of vehicle for which the information is. Not meens every vehicle except that vehicle not_Transportation_Truck not_Pedestrian Bicycle not_Motorcyle not_Moped Emergency_Vehicle Taxi not_Public_Bus Facility_Vehicle not_Facility_Vehicle Employee_vehicle not_Employee_vehicle High_Occupancy_Vehicle Car_with_Trailer not_Car_with_Trailer Private_Bus Farm_Vehicle not_Farm_Vehicle Vehicles_with_an_explosive_load not_Vehicles_with_an_explosive_load Vehicles_with_other_dangerous_loads Trolley_Bus not_Light_Rail not_School_Bus Vehicle_carrying_snow_chains Mail_Vehicle not_Mail_Vehicle Tanker not_Tanker not_Vehicle_for_disabled_persons Vehicle_for_disabled_persons not_Vehicle_carrying_snow_chains not_4_Wheel_Drive_Vehicle 4_Wheel_Drive_Vehicle School_Bus Light_Rail not_Trolley_Bus not_Vehicles_with_other_dangerous_loads not_Vehicles_with_a_water-polluting_load Vehicles_with_a_water-polluting_load not_Private_Bus not_Military_Vehicle Military_Vehicle not_High_Occupancy_Vehicle not_Residential Residential Public_Bus not_Taxi not_Emergency_Vehicle Moped Motorcyle not_Bicycle Pedestrian Transportation_Truck not_Delivery_Truck Delivery_Truck not_Passenger_Cars Passenger_Cars All_Vehicles The maximum altitude in metres of any point along a given Road_Element, if it has been identified as a mountain pass. The maximum speed limit allocated to a Road Element (km /h) The identification of a location according to a certain location referencing system The functional siginficance of a Public Transportation Point Timing_Point Activation_Point Relief_Point Parking_Point Break_Facility Turn_Station Traffic_Control_Point Not_Available Available The type of location referencing system employed for the associated Location Reference Code TMC Other VICS RDS A unique alphanumeric Identifier ascribed to a particular Feature The time between two public transportation vehicles, moving along a route in a line. indicates whether a Road_Element has an Emergency_Vehicle_Lane or not. Available Not_Available The main intention of Intermediate House Numbers is to add detail when the House Number Structure is irregular. It stores all the numbers of one side of the Road Element / Adress Boundry Element between the First and Last House Number The official code of a postal area as defined by the national postal organisation The road gradient percentage value on the Road Element. The gradient shall be expressed in the form of percentage incline. Negative values describe downhill gradients, positive values describe uphill gradients. Only the maximum gradient value at any position along the Road Element need be stored. In case the gradient relates to the entire Road Element, only the maximum gradient value at any position along the Road Element need be stored. Uphill and downhill should be defined relative to the orientation of the Road Element when travelling from start to end point The national currency in which a certain payment can be made whether one can park free or the parking facility is charged The date of an accident An indication of improvement applied to the Road Surface. Gravel covered roads considered to be unpaved Not_Available Available Multiple_Carriageway_which_is_not_a_motorway Traffic_Square Enclodes_Traffic_Area Slip_Road Service_Road Entrance_or_exit_to_a_car_park Pedestrian_Zone Walkway_not_passable_for_Vehicles Entrance_or_exit_to_Service Roundabout_Circle Single_Carriageway Motorway See Form_Of_Way number of lanes Both_Directions Negative_Direction No_Direction Positive_Direction See direction_of_Traffic_Flow The name assigned to any particular Feature by the official organisation responsible for the existence and the maintance of the Feature The name of a Feature that has no official status but is used or known by the general public Underground Rail Airplane Urban_Rail Light_Rail Bus The type of public transport that is travelling along the line. For which of the lanes of an associated Road_Element the attribute holds or does not hold. A string with a length which at maximum equals the number of lanes present on the associated Road Element + 1, wherby the character on the (n+1)th position refers to the nth lane. The allowed characters on the first position of the string are: L: Indicating that the lanes are counted from the left side of the Road Element R: Indicating that the lanes are counted from the right side of the Road Element The allowed characters on the nth (n>1) position of the string are: 0: Indicating that the associated attribute is not valid for this lane 1: Indicating that the associated attribute is valid for this lane The left and right side of the Road Element are defined by considering the orientation of the Road Element as defined by start and end bounding point Feature. The number of characters does not necessarily have to equal the number of lanes of the associated Road Element +1. In this case th npt represented lanes should be considered as not collected. The width of the divider along the Road_Element expressed in meters The classification of a Junction Border_Crossing Railway_Crossing Mini-Roundabout The number of parking places available. a space seperated list of coordinates relative to the start-node, e.g. 12,23 45,23 The type of a blocked passage as an indication of the fact whether it is removable removable permanently_fixed A list of recogniced credit cards accepted by the service Maestro Mastercard VISA An indication of the quality for transportation purposes of the surface of a Road Element. What is considered good and what pure shall be defined from the viewpoint of a car transportation. Pure Good A link to an external ressource containing further informations whether the parking facility is provided with Park and Ride facility Very_High No Medium Low