Patent ID: 7681126
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for spell-checking location-bound words contained in a geographic information system (GIS) map, database, or document, each location-bound word having a location corresponding to a real-world geographic location, each location being predetermined in a GIS map, database, or document and having an associated geometry, the method comprising the steps of: providing a locationary comprising a plurality of words, each locationary word having a spelling, and, for each locationary word, a corresponding geographic location and geometry within which the provided spelling of the locationary word is predetermined to be correctly spelled; for each location-bound word being spell-checked, retrieving the location and geometry of the location-bound word from the GIS map or a layer of the GIS map, and identifying one or more locationary words whose location and geometry within which the provided spelling is correctly spelled has a predefined spatial relationship to the retrieved location and geometry of the location-bound word; and for each location-bound word being spell-checked, comparing a spelling of the location-bound word being spell-checked to the spelling of the identified locationary words to determine if the location-bound word being spell-checked is correctly spelled.