Patent ID: 9459105
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G01C

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at an apparatus, an update request indicating a feature requested to be changed at a corresponding location on a map; receiving coordinate data for a plurality of members, each member having a user device including a GPS sensor providing corresponding coordinate data; determining, from said plurality of members, a community of members associated with the update request, each respective member of the community of members having visited or currently visiting the corresponding location and determined based on said received coordinate data; providing an indication of the update request to said each respective member of the community of members; weighting, by a processor, one or more responses received from said each respective member of the community of members based upon location visiting history information associated with said each respective member of the community of members and determined based on said received coordinate data; updating the map when a first threshold number of the community of members that are provided the indication of the update request provide the one or more responses and when the weighted one or more responses indicate that acceptance of the update request by the community of members is a second threshold number; and sending an updated version of the map from a communication interface of the apparatus to selected communication devices via a communication network, wherein the weighting is based, at least in part, on how frequently said each respective member of the community of members has visited the corresponding location and determined based on said received coordinate data.