Patent ID: 7617246

Claim:
A system for geo-coding a plurality of user generated content, the system comprising: a content repository computer server; a first content source configured to generate a location log record and a plurality of first user content, the location log record includes a location for the first user content, a first identifier, a first time stamp associated with the first user content; a second content source configured to generate a plurality of second user content that includes a second identifier, a second time stamp associated with the second user content; at least one content management module configured to manage the user generated content from the second content source; a content repository configured to store the user generated content; a location repository configured to store the location log record associated with the first content source; a geo-coding module configured to generate a geo-located object data sheet (GDS) that associates the user generated content from the second content source with the location log record from the first content source by fetching the location log record, wherein the location of the second user content is determined if the first identifier is similar to the second identifier; and a GDS depository configured to store a plurality of GDSs for the first user content and for the second user content, each of the GDS data records including a particular location, a particular time corresponding to when the content was generated, and a particular description of the content.