Daniel Johnson Hoskins

US Patent:

20040064256, Apr 1, 2004

Filed:

Sep 30, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/261385

Inventors:

Michael Barinek - Park Ridge IL, US
Daniel Hoskins - Boulder CO, US
Gary Pulford - Boulder CO, US
Douglas Stevens - Naperville IL, US
David Weksel - Naperville IL, US

International Classification:

G06F019/00

US Classification:

702/005000

Abstract:

A system and method that provides economical and accurate data for a selected area (jurisdiction) from a centralized location by generating a base-line map from commercially available information and distributing portions of this map to local jurisdictions. Inaccuracies and other information only available locally are stored in a local database. Periodically these databases are uploaded to a central location and reconciled with the base line map. Advantageously, such reconciliation may include a rules based reconciliation wherein the geo-coordinates from the commercial vendors are used and applied to the local data. A new base line map is then generated and distributed back to the local user. In this manner, the local user has an accurate yet economical map.