A system examines a current route to determine if one or more instances of off-road travel exist providing an alternative path for reaching a route destination. The system determines that characteristics of a vehicle meet parameters associated with at least one of the instances of off-road travel. Also, the system, responsive to the determining that the characteristics meet the parameters, provides a driver with indication of an alternative route across the instance of off-road travel, including any payment necessary to use the instance of off-road travel. The system, responsive to driver selection of the instance of off-road travel, negotiates payment for usage of the instance of off-road travel and, responsive to negotiating payment, changes the current route to include the instance of off-road travel. The system also provides digital permissions for the vehicle to travel on the instance of off-road travel.

Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to enable a user the ability to create, log, experience and share experiences, sites, editorial commentary, photographs, and videos along either newly created or already defines tours, routes, or hikes, which may be called “urban hiking trails” (i.e. walking tours within cities). Users can choose among different hikes with established sites to see, stops to make, and merchants to visit, along with historical or editorial content to provide information to the user along the route. Merchant partners are given the ability to provide focused targeted advertising to the users that have begun or are about to physically experience such walking tours.

A method for certifying map elements for safety-critical driving functions by a control unit, at least one observation variable of at least one mapping step being ascertained by at least one map element after an implementation of the mapping step by a monitoring function, and being compared with a setpoint value of the observation variable, at least one result value being calculated based on a comparison of the observation variable with the setpoint value of the observation variable for the at least one mapping step by the monitoring function, the at least one result value being stored as a certificate and being linked with the at least one map element. A control unit, a computer program as well as a machine-readable memory medium are also described.

This disclosure relates to a vehicle apparatus, and related vehicle control method, the vehicle apparatus including a memory to store zone map data representing one or more operation zones, a sensor of the vehicle fetching vehicle location data from one or more location beacons; and a controller, in communication with the sensor, analyzing the vehicle location data and comparing the present location against locations in the stored zone map data stored in the memory, wherein when the controller determines that the vehicle is entering one of the one or more operation zones, the controller adjusts an operating parameter of the vehicle based upon one or more operation rules associated with the operation zone that the vehicle is entering.

A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.

A navigation method includes receiving additional information satisfying a condition based on a current position of the user terminal, and indicating a position corresponding to the additional information on a navigation map.

The present invention relates to a device and a method for displaying and searching for a location by using a grid and words, and the device for displaying and searching for a location by using a grid and words according to the present invention includes: a location keyword storage unit for storing information on grid IDs allocated to a plurality of unit grids for dividing a geographical area to be a location display object, respectively, and location keywords each of which has a structure having a plurality of words arranged therein, such that the grid IDs and the location keywords are matched to each other; a grid search unit that searches for a grid ID matched to a specific location keyword and outputs representative coordinates of a unit grid corresponding to the searched grid ID, if the specific location keyword is inputted; and a location keyword search unit that searches for at least one location keyword matched to the grid ID of a unit grid including geographical coordinates related to a specific location and outputs the searched location keyword, if the geographical coordinates are inputted.

A method for generating a map. The method comprises: acquiring current position information (302) of a target device (301) and a pre-generated electronic map (304), wherein the central position of the electronic map (304) is the position represented by position information of the target device (301) and acquired when or before the electronic map (304) is generated; and in response to the determination that a current position (302) represented by the current position information (302) meets pre-set adjustment conditions, using a new thread to execute the following adjustment steps to generate an adjusted electronic map (306): generating a new electronic map (305) with the current position (302) as the central position and adjusting the pre-generated electronic map (304) according to the new electronic map (305).

In one embodiment, a method includes, by a magnetic-measurement device, taking magnetic measurements as the magnetic-measurement device traverses a path. The magnetic measurements correspond to positions of the magnetic-measurement device along the path. The method also includes, by the magnetic-measurement device, recording at least some of the magnetic measurements.

Embodiments of this application disclose an interaction information obtaining method performed at a target user terminal. After detecting, on a virtual map preset in an interaction application, a trigger operation performed on a target POI identifier, the target user terminal obtains first location information of the target user terminal by using the virtual map and second location information corresponding to the target POI identifier on the virtual map. The target user terminal detects a distance difference between the first location information and the second location information. When the distance difference satisfies a preset distance range, the target user terminal sends, to an interaction server, an interaction information request carrying the target POI identifier and receives interaction information corresponding to the target POI identifier from the interaction server and then displays the interaction information on the virtual map.