Patent ID: 8831882
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A method in a computing system for identifying important access roads for a geographic location, the method comprising: identifying, by one or more processors, a plurality of previous requests for directions between a multiplicity of sources and one or more destinations identical, or proximate, to the geographic location; determining, by the one or more processors, routes between the multiplicity of sources and the one or more destinations; identifying, by the one or more processors, (i) a first road segment that is commonly shared by at least two of the determined routes, and (ii) a second road segment that is commonly shared by at least two additional of the determined routes; determining, by the one or more processors, that the first road segment is used more frequently than the second road segment; and designating, by the one or more processors, the first road segment as an important access road for the geographic location.