METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE MAP DATA UPDATE

An approach is provided for vehicle map data update. The approach involves, for example, processing sensor data captured by a sensor of a vehicle to detect a machine-readable visual representation. The machine-readable visual representation encodes map data corresponding to a map tile of a geographic database. The approach also involves decoding the map data from the machine-readable visual representation. The approach further involves updating a local copy of the map tile stored in the vehicle based on the map data.