Patent ID: 8070608

Claim:
A method for collecting geographic data for a navigation database using computer game play, the method comprising: identifying a lack of geographic data in the navigation database, the lacking geographic data includes geographic position data of a geographic feature; determining an activity to be performed by a computer game player to collect the geographic data lacking in the navigation database, the activity including physically moving to a real-world location; formulating a game scenario of a computer game that prompts the computer game player to perform the activity; providing data representing the game scenario to a user device, the game scenario displayed on a user interface of the user device in which the computer game is being played on by the computer game player; collecting real-world geographic data based on performance of the activity, the collected real-world geographic data corresponding to the identified lack of geographic data in the navigation database and including data indicative of a name of a business, a name of a path, a name of a point-of-interest, a business address, a path address, or a point-of-interest address; and updating the navigation database based on the collected real-world geographic data, the updating including adding the name of the business, the name of the path, the name of the point-of-interest, the business address, the path address, or the point-of-interest address in the navigation database.