Patent ID: 8898179
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G01C,G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for extracting attribute data from a media file, said method comprising: capturing a media file via a geographic data collector device wherein said media file comprises a portion of a geographic data file, said media file captured a field in a form of at least one image portion and at least one audio portion; utilizing a position determining component to automatically provide a location of a geographic feature at a time that the media file is captured a field; automatically identifying an attribute of the geographic feature which is described in the media file; accessing a configuration file which defines how said attribute is to be displayed by an office application, such that said attribute displayed by said office application is not the image file or the audio file of the geographic feature captured by said geographic data collector but is instead a symbol representative of the attribute of the geographic feature; and displaying said symbol representative of said attribute, and not the image file or the audio file of the geographic feature, in a manner consistent with said configuration file and in a displayed location consistent with collected geographic data of said geographic feature.