Patent ID: 8265871

Claim:
A method for managing a collection of geographical information system (GIS) data over a network, comprising: receiving a universal resource locator passed from a browser of a mobile computing device, wherein the universal resource locator includes geospatial location information that specifies a current geographical location of the mobile computing device; parsing the universal resource locator to obtain the geospatial location information; identifying a list of businesses within a region at the geographical location; sending the identified list of businesses to the browser; receiving geotagged record information from the browser, wherein the geotagged record information includes record information associated with the listed businesses and entered by a user of the browser based on observations made by the user at different locations corresponding to the respective listed businesses and includes geographical tags having geospatial location information that specifies the current geographical location of the mobile computing device at the time of user record information entry; updating data of a database based on the received geotagged record information; and automatically assigning a confidence score indicative of a relatively high confidence for the data updated based on the received geotagged record information.