An information processing method, an information processing system, an information processing device, and an information terminal are configured to set a first time at which a vehicle will start traveling on a travel route based on an operation accepted from a user via a terminal, and set a second time at which a notification to the user will be issued based on a position of the terminal, a position of the vehicle, and the first time.

An information processing device includes a display configured to display a mesh of mesh information based on longitude and latitude. A mesh is composed of a plurality of blocks. The mesh information includes area information about a traveling area where a moving body can travel. The area information is the additional information added to each of the plurality of blocks. The additional information is the display information that is weighted and sorted, based on the number of overlapping points of the plurality of locus logs.

Embodiments provide interactive methods and systems for exploring ideologies on a virtual map. Method performed by a processor of an ideology exploration system includes displaying an interactive map comprising a plurality of regions on a UI in an electronic device for a user. Each region is associated with at least one ideology attribute. Each region includes media items associated with the ideology attribute. The method includes facilitating a virtual tool for the user for navigating from one region to another region based on a user preference. The user preference includes actions performed by the user on regions for exploring the regions. The method also includes tracking a user identifier associated with the user based on the user preference to determine a journey of the user. The method further includes updating a status of the user on a user profile based on the journey of the user in the interactive map.

In order to address a conventional problem that it is not possible to provide a user with map expression data whose display mode has been changed according to additional information, an information processing apparatus includes: a map expression data storage unit in which one or more pieces of map expression data expressing a map are stored, the data being associated with one or more attribute values containing region specifying information for specifying a region that is being expressed; an additional information storage unit in which additional information, which is information that is additional, is stored in association with the map expression data; and a transmitting unit that transmits map expression data to a terminal apparatus such that even same map expression data is displayed on the terminal apparatus in a different mode according to the additional information.

A mapping system allows a user to interact with any location on a digital map and present the user with location related information associated with the selected location. The location related information may be in the form or a card, pop-up, image, or other graphic and may be displayed on the map at or near the selected location, around the map, etc. The displayed location related information may include predetermined or pre-stored data about the location or may include location related information collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction with the digital map. The displayed location related information may be displayed in the same graphical format on the digital map regardless of whether location related information is predetermined information about the location that already exists or information that is collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction.

A travel path data generation apparatus for generating travel path data inside an intersections for automated driving includes a travel path data generator that generates the data of the travel path in such a way that, using an absolute trajectory of actual traveling of a vehicle inside the intersection, the travel path data generator fits an estimated trajectory of the actual traveling of the vehicle inside the intersection into data of lane network connected to the intersection.

A map update device is configured to: generate an integrated map based on a plurality of input maps, each of the plurality of input maps including a probe data element assigned with a reliability; determine a reliability of the generated integrated map; update a reference map by reflecting a difference between the reference map and the integrated map when the determined reliability of the integrated map is equal to or higher than a first predetermined level; store, as one of accumulated data elements, the integrated map when the determined reliability of the integrated map is lower than the first predetermined level and equal to or higher than a second predetermined level, the second predetermined level being set to be lower than the first predetermined level; update the integrated map based on the accumulated data elements; and determine the reliability of the updated integrated map.

Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a transit map including a group of transit lines. The mapping application receives a request to display a transit route in the transit map. The mapping application also, in response to the received request, displays the transit route by modifying portions of transit lines along the route to emphasize the portions of the transit lines while modifying other transit lines not along the route to de-emphasize the transit lines not along the route.

Driving assistance systems, methods, and programs accept an inputted planned travel route from the route guidance system, provide driving assistance of the vehicle on the planned travel route, based on driving assistance map data, and obtain, when versions of the route guidance map data and the driving assistance map data do not match each other, the driving assistance map data whose version matches the version of the route guidance map data from a map provider. Route guidance systems search for a planned travel route based on route guidance map data, provide guidance on the planned travel route, output the planned travel route to the driving assistance system, and obtain, when versions of the route guidance map data and the driving assistance map data do not match each other, the route guidance map data whose version matches the version of the driving assistance map data from a map provider.

Described are methods, systems, and techniques to implement an improved map interface that displays updatable geographic information and that enables users to request one or more data products for a geospatial asset corresponding to a region of a geographic area. In some embodiments, a GIS application can be configured to interface with third party geospatial data suppliers that provide different types of data products displayable in the map interface. One or more of these data products can be requested by the user and may be associated with a recurring time interval to provide the user with expanded display views that are up to date and complete.