Patent ID: 7002579

Claim:
A method for tracking for a vehicle, both geographic position and multiple types of trip data wherein none of the types of trip data is used to determine geographic position, said method comprising: recording multiple types of trip data not used to determine geographic position periodically and time stamping each periodic recording; recording geographic position periodically and time stamping each recording; saving the time stamped trip data and time stamped geographic position in a database; electronically monitoring multiple types of trip data not used to determine geographic position and recording the trip data and geographic position when trip data indicates one of multiple predetermined trip events is occurring, thereby recording the event trip data and the event geographic position for the occurring trip event rather than waiting for a next period of one of the periodic recordings to initiate recording; saving the recorded event trip data and event geographic position in the database; graphically displaying the recorded trip data and the recorded geographic position as a function of time, from the database, wherein the graphically displayed time stamped trip data and time stamped geographic position is displayed differently than the graphically displayed event trip data and event geographic position.