1. An electronic device configured to operate as a traffic information client, comprising: an interface adapted to receive traffic information messages, where a traffic information message comprises a location code which identifies a location of a traffic event; a memory; a relational database stored in the memory, the relational database comprising at least a first set of relations including at least one relation which directly or indirectly associates location codes with location information; and a processing unit adapted to query the relational database with a location code received with a traffic information message in order to retrieve the associated location information from the relational database, where the relational database further comprises a second set of relations including an event name relation directly or indirectly associating event codes with event texts, the event name relation comprising records for the event text in two or more different languages, the relation further comprising an attribute with a language code which identifies the language in which the event text is provided in each record.