Methods and systems for identifying vehicle filling stations and generating related visual indications are provided. In some examples, vehicle data is received that corresponds to a plurality of vehicles. From the vehicle data, a first subset of data is extracted that corresponds to location data and one of a fuel or charge level state change of each of the plurality of vehicles. One or more locations of one or more of the plurality of vehicles are identified, based on the location data, when the fuel or charge level state change corresponds to an increase in a fuel or charge level of the one or more of the plurality of vehicles. One or more visual indications are generated that correspond to the identified one or more locations.

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 method for utilizing observed locally customary behavior from historical data sets in vehicle surroundings by a control unit. Historical data sets of vehicle trajectories of at least one first vehicle and/or at least one second vehicle are received.

A locally customary behavior of the first vehicle and/or of the second vehicle is ascertained from the historical data sets. A registered behavior of the first vehicle, of at least one third vehicle or a digital map being checked for deviations based on the ascertained locally customary behavior. When a deviation of the locally customary behavior from a registered behavior of the first vehicle, a registered behavior of a third vehicle, or a deviation of the locally customary behavior from the digital map is established, the execution of at least one function is initiated. A control unit, a computer program, and a machine-readable memory medium, are also described.

The disclosure relates to using ambient lighting conditions with passenger and goods pickups and drop offs with autonomous vehicles. For instance, a map of ambient lighting conditions for stopping locations may be generated by receiving ambient lighting condition data for predetermined stopping locations and arranging this data into a plurality of buckets based on time and one of the stopping locations. A vehicle may then be controlled in an autonomous driving mode in order to stop for a passenger by both observing ambient lighting conditions for different stopping locations and, in some instances, also using the map.

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.

Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for displaying a map. The method provides a first display area to display a map, and a second display area to overlap a portion of the first display area to display (i) a field to receive a search parameter and (ii) a set of predicted locations to view on the map. The second display area is moveable over the first display area in order to decrease its size to allow a larger portion of the map to be displayed in the first display area, or to increase its size to allow a larger number of predicted locations to be displayed in the second display area. In some embodiments, the second display area overlaps a bottom portion of the first display area. In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a map application that executes on a mobile device. The set of predicted locations displayed in the second display area in some embodiments include addresses harvested from applications executing on the mobile device. Examples of such applications include electronic mail applications, text messaging applications, the map application, ticket applications, restaurant reservation applications, social media applications, real estate applications, etc. The set of predicted locations includes in some embodiments addresses associated with previous destinations traveled to by the mobile device.

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 to publish information that can preferably only be retrieved by either a select set of users or all users. The information is published on a map, tied to a physical location. Each piece of information is associated with a viewing radius. Retrieval of the published information is based on those other users' physical location. The number of users that retrieve and collect the information can be limited.

The present invention provides a method, the QCODE method, of geotagging all postal addresses and other points of interest that one might want to navigate to and which allows the user to identify these addresses and other points of interest with a code consisting of 7 to 10 characters or less. A point of interest may or may not have a street address, for example, the main entrance to the Jefferson Building at the USPTO complex in Alexandria Va. or the entrance to the VIP parking area at Yankee Stadium. The disclosure teaches embodiments that are naturally upgraded to integrate changing spatial information due to addition of countries, better data, political changes, and other similar changes in geographical data. A single geocoding engine is capable of handling the various address formats in use in different countries and jurisdictions.

A system accesses a three-dimensional map of a geographic region and generates a two-dimensional projection of the road based on the three-dimensional map. The two-dimensional projection comprises a plurality of points along the road and each point is assigned a score measuring a navigability of the point. Based on the navigability score of each point and history of vehicle positions on the road, the system identifies a plurality of navigable points on the two-dimensional projection of the road. Based on the plurality of navigable points, the system determines a navigable surface corresponding to a physical area over which a vehicle may safely navigate and navigable surface boundaries surrounding that area. The navigable surface area and boundaries on the two-dimensional projection are converted into a three-dimensional representation, which the system uses to generate an updated three-dimensional map of the geographic region.