Patent ID: 8655012

Claim:
A method, comprising: obtaining a first geographic image associated with a first location and first data extracted from the first geographic image that describes the first location, wherein the first geographic image represents a geographic object at the first location; selecting, with a processor, a second geographic image from a set of geographic images, the set containing a plurality of images, wherein the second geographic image is selected based on a proximity of a location to the first location, and wherein the second geographic image is selected in response to a request from a user; and determining, with the processor, a similarity value based on a visual similarity of the first image to the second image, wherein determining the similarity value comprises: identifying features in the first and second geographic image; and comparing a shape and position of one or more features in the first and second geographic images, the similarity value relating to a number of matches of the one or more features of the first and second geographic images.