Patent ID: 8838382

Claim:
A method of automatically providing, to a user having a geographic location, movement direction, movement speed, and user preferences, tour guide media, said media stored or output according to a user's geographic location, movement direction, movement speed and user preferences, said method comprising: obtaining access to data in at least one computer database, said data comprising: a: a plurality of tour guide media linked to geographic points or regions of interest, at least some of said tour guide media characterized by tour guide media topic; b: geographic activation areas, said geographic activation areas being linked with either said geographic points or regions of interest; c: user preferences, at least some of said user preferences being media topic playback preferences; d: geographic map data; using said user's geographic location as determined by an automated location determination method, movement direction, movement speed, geographic map data, geographic activation areas and/or geographic points of interest to determine, using a computer processor, user-proximate regions of interest wherein said user-proximate regions of interest comprise geographic points of interest and/or geographic activation areas are either within visual range or close proximity of said user, or will shortly become within visual range or close proximity of said user; using said computer processor to determine the links between said user proximate regions of interest and said tour guide media; and storing for later output, or outputting, to a user computerized device according to a match between said tour guide media topic and said media topic playback preferences, at least some of the tour guide media that are linked to said proximate regions of interest; wherein if said computerized device is outputting a first tour guide media linked to a first user proximate region of interest, and said user then moves to a second user proximate region of interest linked to a second tour guide media, then according to said user preferences: using information pertaining to a first geographic activation area associated with the first user proximate region of interest, and information pertaining to a second geographic activation area associated with the second user proximate region of interest, as well as said user geographic location, movement direction, movement speed, and a relative playback time length of said first tour guide media and said second tour guide media, to optimize the order in which said first and second tour guide media are output to said user, as well as to determine the relative times in which the two tour guide media are stored or output to said user.