Patent ID: 8315203

Claim:
A method for developing a map for use by a user, the user being selectively individuals, vehicles, and other entities, comprising: using a geographical zone, the zone selectively being a preconfigured geographical zone, the zone including a plurality of spaced apart nodes, wherein the nodes are arranged in a multi-dimensional sense, the location of the plurality of nodes in the multidimensional sense being placed with a structure attached to the ground; sending data communications between one or more of the nodes, one or more users, and one or more control stations; and affecting multi-dimensional mapping according to the placement of the nodes and the communications between the nodes and the control stations, wherein the mapping is affected in a three-dimensional sense, selectively being a three-dimensional sense in the x, y, and z axes or coordinates and the structure is a building, the building having different elevational levels and there are nodes on different elevational levels whereby there are nodes at multiple different elevational levels, and wherein the system narrows the plurality of nodes for use by the user at a first elevational level to the most practically near node to the user, such that a node at another elevational level, even though physically closer to the user at the first elevational level is excluded as being a node the most practically near to that user, and a different node at the elevational level of the user is selected as the most practically near to that user.