Data updating method for internet map service platform and Internet map service platform system

• US 20080177709A1
• Filed: 12/19/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Hsieh, Chih-Wen, Chen, Hsin-Ying, Chiu, Yang-Po, Lee, Yi-Hsiu, Chen, Hung-Hsiung, Hsu, Yu-Liu, Shiau, Ming-Kai, Lau, Ying-Fung
• Application Number:
  US12/000,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20080177709A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3811 Point data, e.g. Point of Interest [POI]
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3844 Data obtained from position sensors only, e.g. from inertial navigation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A data updating method for an Internet map service platform and a system thereof are applied to an electronic device. The electronic device is linked to an Internet map service platform by a wire or wireless network, and the Internet map server platform has a plurality of map data. The method includes the following steps: logining the map service platform; getting a piece of map data of a present location from the map service platform; recording a piece of route data including GPS locus of the present location; comparing the gotten map data with the route data to find whether they have a difference; and uploading the route data having the difference to the map service platform.

Claims

1. A data updating method for an Internet map service platform, wherein the method is applied in an electronic device which is linked to an Internet map service platform by a wire or wireless network, the method comprising the following steps:

editing a piece of data having global positioning system (GPS) locus;

logining the Internet map service platform; and

uploading the data having GPS locus to the Internet map service platform.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data having GPS locus comprises one or random combination of an electronic map, a piece of scenic spot data, a movie, a photograph and a set of coordinate points.

3. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

confirming that the data having GPS locus is correct; and

updating the data as a piece of map data of the Internet map service platform.

4. The method according to claim 1 further comprising a step of searching the map data of a particular location, wherein the data having GPS locus is modification data of the map data of the particular location.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of editing a piece of data having GPS locus comprises:

recording the GPS locus coordinates and a related message of a piece of scenic spot data; and

storing the GPS locus coordinates and the related message of the scenic spot data as the data having GPS locus.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the data having GPS locus is open to public on the Internet map service platform.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Internet map service platform comprises a reading authority for the data having GPS locus.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Internet map service platform comprises an editing authority for the data having GPS locus.

9. A data updating method for an Internet map service platform, wherein the method is applied in an electronic device which is linked to an Internet map service platform by a wire or wireless network, and the Internet map service platform comprises a plurality of map data, the method comprising the following steps:

logining the Internet map service platform;

getting the map data of a present location from the Internet map service platform;

recording a piece of route data of the GPS locus of the present location;

comparing the gotten map data with the route data to find whether they have a difference; and

uploading the route data having the difference to the Internet map service platform.

10. The method according to claim 9 further comprising:

confirming that the uploaded route data is correct; and

updating the route data as the map data of the Internet map service platform.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the map data comprises one or random combination of an electronic map, scenic spot data, an actual image, a photograph and a coordinate point.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the route data is open to public on the Internet map service platform.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein the Internet map service platform comprises a reading authority for the route data.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the Internet map service platform comprises an editing authority for the route data.

15. An Internet map service platform system comprising:

a server comprising an Internet map service platform having a plurality of map data; and

a plurality of electronic devices, wherein the electronic devices are capable of being linked to the server by a wire or wireless network and logining the Internet map service platform, and the plurality of the electronic devices are capable of downloading the map data from the Internet map service platform or uploading a piece of data having GPS locus to the map service platform.

16. The Internet map service platform system according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of electronic devices are capable of having a global satellite positioning function and a photographing function.

17. The Internet map service platform system according to claim 15, wherein the server comprises a resident program for integrating the data uploaded from the electronic devices and the plurality of the map data of the server to draw an electronic map with an updated route, increase new points of interesting to the electronic map or make a shared travel route diagram.