Patent ID: 6542813
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: G01C,G06F,G08G

Abstract:
Method for automatically managing a geographic information database, the geographic information database containing at least a geographical position information of a location and an associated information representing at least one feature of the location, comprising the steps of:searching nodes of a network periodically to update the geographical positional information and the associated information, detecting, if the geographical position information and the associated information of a location is present in a document at a searched node of said network, retrieving the document containing the geographical position information and the associated information of the location present at said searched node of said network, parsing the document to acquire the geographical position information and the associated information, automatically storing the acquired geographical position information, associated information and a pointer to the document in the geographic information database, and periodically rechecking the document at the searched node of a network for changes in the geographical position information and associated information.