Method for creating a digital road map

A device configured to create a digital road map, the device configured to perform the following steps comprising:

• receiving environmental data which represent an environment of a motor vehicle;
• processing the environmental data to extract at least one bird's-eye view (BEV) feature from the environment;
• receiving input data representing one or more layers of a digital map of the environment of the motor vehicle, wherein each of the one or more layers include respective information about the environment of the motor vehicle;
• processing the input data to extract, from the respective information, at least one further BEV feature from the environment;
• and
• creating the digital road map based on the at least one BEV feature extracted from the environmental data and the at least one further BEV feature extracted from the respective information.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium on which is stored a computer program for creating a digital road map, the computer program, when executed by a computer, causing the computer to perform the following steps comprising:

• receiving environmental data which represent an environment of a motor vehicle;
• processing the environmental data to extract at least one bird's-eye view (BEV) feature from the environment;
• receiving input data representing one or more layers of a digital map of the environment of the motor vehicle, wherein each of the one or more layers include respective information about the environment of the motor vehicle;
• processing the input data to extract, from the respective information, at least one further BEV feature from the environment;
• and
• creating the digital road map based on the at least one BEV feature extracted from the environmental data and the at least one further BEV feature extracted from the respective information.