JP2008040869A - Point information evaluation system, point information evaluation program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a point information evaluation system that can improve the effectiveness of point information. <P>SOLUTION: A point information evaluation system is provided with map data, a point information recording means, a means of contents opening to the public, and a contents number calculation means. The point information recording means records a plurality of points information inputted by a plurality of users. The means of contents opening to the public opens point information to the public as contents associated with corresponding position on map of the map data. The contents number calculation means calculates associated contents number on each of a plurality of points information. Users can determines that it is the point information that effectiveness is high for the point information having a larger number of associated contents, also can determine that it is the point information that effectiveness is low for the point information having a smaller number of associated contents, and can exactly evaluate effectiveness of point information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention belongs to the technical field of server devices capable of communicating with information terminals, and relates to a method for evaluating point information.

  Currently, a user can view a map by accessing a server device in which map data is recorded from an information terminal via the Internet.

  In particular, recently, as shown in Non-Patent Documents 1 and 2, as content published on the Internet, not only a map but also point information (POI: Point Of Interest) about a location corresponding to a position on the map Some are also available. Thereby, for example, when the user clicks a predetermined position on the map, the user sees a comment such as a name, address, telephone number, word-of-mouth information, etc., of a store or the like existing at the latitude and longitude corresponding to the predetermined position. Can do. In Patent Literature 1, the validity of point information is determined based on the number of times registration / deletion of point information from the database for a database in which a user can register point information. A technique is described in which only the point information determined to exceed the value is shared among the users and provided to each user terminal.

Increment P Corporation, Mapfan On Page <URL: http://www.incrementp.co.jp/mapfan/onpage/> Google Inc., Google Maps <URL: http://maps.google.co.jp/> JP 2005-275313 A

  However, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, since the user can illegally increase the number of registrations, there remains a question about the accuracy of the evaluation of the validity of the point information.

  This invention is made | formed in view of said point, and makes it a subject to provide the point information evaluation apparatus which can aim at improvement about the accuracy of evaluation of the effectiveness of point information.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, in the spot information evaluation apparatus, the map data, spot information recording means for recording spot information input by a plurality of users, and predetermined information among the spot information. Content disclosure means for publishing one or more pieces of location information selected by the user as content associated with a corresponding position on the map of the map data; and for each of the plurality of location information, Content number calculating means for calculating the number.

  The invention according to claim 3 is a spot information evaluation program executed by a computer including map data and spot information recording means for recording spot information inputted by a plurality of users. Content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by a predetermined user among the plurality of pieces of point information as content associated with corresponding positions on the map of the map data, For each of them, the computer is caused to function as content number calculation means for calculating the number of associated contents.

  In one aspect of the present invention, a spot information evaluation device includes: map data; spot information recording means that records a plurality of spot information input by a plurality of users; Content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by the user as content associated with a corresponding position on the map of the map data, and the number of pieces of content associated with each of the plurality of pieces of point information Content number calculating means for calculating.

  The point information evaluation device is, for example, a server device and a database connected to a network such as the Internet, and includes map data, point information recording means, content publishing means, and content number calculating means. A CPU (Central Processing Unit) of the server apparatus corresponds to these means. The point information recording means records a plurality of pieces of point information input by a plurality of users. The content publishing means publishes the content as content associated with the corresponding position on the map of the map data. The content number calculating means calculates the number of the associated contents for each of the plurality of pieces of location information. The user can determine that point information with a larger number of associated contents is more effective point information, and determines that point information with a smaller number of associated contents is less effective point information. Can do. Thereby, the user can evaluate the effectiveness of point information correctly.

  In one aspect of the spot information evaluation apparatus, the content number calculation unit further lists the plurality of spot information in order from the spot information having the largest number of the associated contents. Thereby, the exact popularity ranking about the said point information can be created.

  In another aspect of the present invention, a point information evaluation program executed by a computer including point information recording means for recording map data and a plurality of point information input by a plurality of users is the plurality of points Among the pieces of point information, content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by a predetermined user as content associated with the corresponding position on the map of the map data, each of the plurality of point information, The computer is caused to function as content number calculation means for calculating the number of associated contents. This program also allows the user to accurately evaluate the effectiveness of the point information.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The following description shows an example in which the present invention is applied to a server device configured to be able to communicate with a terminal device via a communication unit.

(Overall configuration of content issuing device)
FIG. 1 schematically shows a content issuing device 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the content issuing device 10 includes a server device 1, a POI database 5, and an index database 6. The POI database 5 and the index database 6 are connected to the server device 1. The content issuing device 10 also functions as a point information evaluation device.

  The server device 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a memory, a hard disk, and the like. Map data is recorded in the server device 1. A user can access the server device 1 via the network 2 such as the Internet using the terminal device 3 or the mobile phone 4. By doing in this way, the user can see the map of the map data recorded on the server device 1. The POI database 5 is for recording point information (POI: Point Of Interest) registered by the user. The index database 6 is for recording an index of point information. In the server apparatus 1, the spot information evaluation process described later is performed by the CPU executing the spot information evaluation process program of the present invention recorded in the memory.

(Registration of point information)
Since the point information evaluation process of the present invention is a process of evaluating point information based on the number of issued contents, the server device 1 first performs a content issue process in order to perform the point information evaluation process. There is a need. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a display flow in the content issuance process. In order to perform content issuance processing, it is necessary to register point information in the POI database 5. First, a method for registering point information will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a method of registration processing of point information.

  The user accesses the server device 1 and displays a map including a position corresponding to the point information to be registered (step S11). Next, the user designates a position on the map corresponding to the spot information to be registered, and inputs the spot information. For example, when the user designates by clicking the position corresponding to the latitude and longitude of the point information to be registered on the displayed map, the server device 1 displays a registration format for inputting the point information. . The POI registration format 21 shown in FIG. 2 is an example. The user inputs, for example, latitude, longitude, name, telephone number, and address as necessary items in the POI registration format 21 (step S12). As indicated by an arrow 51 in FIG. 2, the server apparatus 1 registers the input necessary information in the POI database 5 as point information (step S13). In this way, a plurality of pieces of point information are accumulated and recorded in the POI database 5 by a plurality of users.

  FIG. 4A is an example of point information recorded in the POI database 5. As shown to Fig.4 (a), point information is the data about each item of ID, the latitude, the longitude, a name, a telephone number, and an address. The ID is assigned for each piece of point information by the server device 1. In addition to this, the point information includes data on items such as comments input by the user.

  The point information registered in the POI database 5 in this way is generally disclosed in association with a regional information portal site 22 indicating predetermined regional information, as indicated by an arrow 52 in FIG. Specifically, a file of content of predetermined area information including a link to point information is stored inside the server device 1, and the user can access the server device 1 and download the file To be. The user can access the point information through the regional information portal site 22 or the like. The regional information portal site 22 includes a regional map 32 and one or more pieces of point information. The point information is associated with a corresponding position on the local map 32, that is, a position corresponding to the latitude and longitude of the point information. For example, an icon 41 is displayed on the area map 32, and the user clicks on the icon 41 to display point information corresponding to the position of the icon 41 on the area map 32. Can do.

  When the user clicks on the icon 41 on the area map 32, the server device 1 extracts point information corresponding to the position of the icon 41 recorded in the POI database 5 as indicated by an arrow 53 in FIG. To display. The POI display page 23 is an example of displaying point information. On the POI display page 23, for example, an enlarged map 33 around the position related to the point information and a latitude, longitude, name, telephone number, address, comment, etc. related to the point information are displayed.

  The server device 1 may be further configured to display the spot information when the user performs a peripheral search or a keyword search on the regional information portal site 22. Further, the server device 1 further displays an icon 42 as “new POI information” when new location information is registered within the range displayed on the regional map 32 of the regional information portal site 22. It may be possible. In this case, the user can display new point information by clicking the icon 42.

(Evaluation of point information)
Next, the point information evaluation process will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the point information evaluation process. The point information evaluation process is broadly divided into two stages: content issuance processing and point information evaluation. The content issuance processing is registration of point information on My Page, selection of point information to be published, content issuance. It is divided into three stages.

  First, a method for registering the displayed point information in My Page will be described. My page is a list of point information registered by the user. As shown in the POI display page 23, the user displays the spot information (step S21). For example, when the user clicks the “Register to My Page” icon 43 of the displayed spot information, the spot information is displayed as shown in FIG. As shown by the arrow 54, it is registered in my page (step S22). My page 24 is an example of display of my page. At this time, as indicated by an arrow 55 in FIG. 2, the server device 1 registers the ID of the point information in the index database 6 as a table of the user's My Page 24. In this way, the user can accumulate and record one or more pieces of point information in My Page 24.

  FIG. 4B is an example of a table of my page 24. The table of My Page 24 is a table of user IDs and point information IDs. For example, assuming that the user ID of the user is “user 1”, when the user displays my page 24, the server device 1 uses the table of my page 24 to identify point information corresponding to the user ID “user 1”. Based on the IDs “A”, “B”, “C”, “E”, and “F” of the ID, point information corresponding to each ID (name “Ramen A”, name “B”・ Ramen ”, name“ Ramen Sea ”, name“ E-cafe ”, name“ Cafe EF ”are displayed. In other words, whenever the user displays my page 24, the server device 1 is registered by the user as shown by the arrow 56 in FIG. The spot information can be listed and displayed on My Page 24.

  Next, content issuance will be described. The user displays the my page 24 (step S23), and selects the spot information to be disclosed from the spot information registered in the my page 24 (step S24). For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the user provides predetermined point information (name information of “Ramen A”, name “B Ramen”, name “Ramen Sea”, name “E Cafe”). When it is desired to issue a predetermined content ContA included, the point information to be disclosed to the content ContA is selected from a plurality of pieces of point information registered in the My Page 24. For example, the user selects spot information to be disclosed by checking a check box or the like from a plurality of spot information listed on My Page 24. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the user selects four pieces of point information of name “ramen a”, name “bee ramen”, name “ramen sea”, and name “e-cafe” as the point information to be disclosed. . At this time, the server device 1 registers the ID of the point information selected by the user in the index database 6 as a table of the content ContA. FIG. 4C is an example of a content table.

  The server apparatus 1 selects the selected point information in the POI database 5 based on the IDs “A”, “B”, “C”, and “E” of the selected point information in the table of contents ContA of the index database 6. Map 34 including the location of the selected location information (name information “Ramen A”, name “B Ramen”, name “Ramen Sea”, name “E-cafe”). And the contents ContA are made public.

  Here, “publishing” means that a file of content ContA including a link to the POI display page 23 indicating the point information is stored in the server device 1, and another user makes a URL from the Web client or the like of the terminal device 3. By designating (Uniform Resource Locator) or the like, the server device 1 can be accessed, and the file of the content ContA can be downloaded from the server device 1 to the terminal device 3 or the mobile phone 4. To do.

  In this way, the server device 1 has predetermined point information (name “ramen a”, name “bee ramen”, name “ramen sea”, name “e. Content ContA including each point information of “cafe” can be issued (step S25).

  As can be understood from the above description, the user can easily issue the content ContA including the point information by diverting the point information published on the regional information portal site 22. Other users not only access the regional information portal site 22 but also access the content ContA to obtain point information (name “Ramen A”, name “B Ramen”, name “Ramen Sea”). ", Each point information of the name" e-cafe ").

  In addition, the user can also give a theme such as “recommended restaurant map around the station” to the content ContA including the point information to be disclosed. In this case, the user inputs a theme when selecting the location information to be disclosed in the content ContA, and the server device 1 assigns the theme input by the user as a title when issuing the content ContA, for example. Issue. In this way, the user can have a theme for each content to be issued.

  The contents ContB, ContC, and ContD are contents created by the user or created by a third party other than the user.

  In the content ContB, each point information of the name “Day Restaurant” and the name “E Cafe” is disclosed. That is, the server apparatus 1 makes the selection in the POI database 5 based on the IDs “D” and “E” of the selected point information in the table of contents ContB of the index database 6 shown in FIG. The location information (name information of “day restaurant” and name “e-cafe”) is associated with the map 34 including the position of the selected location information by an icon or the like and published as content ContB.

  In the content ContC, the location information of the name “E-cafe”, the name “Cafe EF”, and the name “Cafe G” is disclosed. That is, the server apparatus 1 uses the POI database based on the IDs “E”, “F”, and “G” of the selected point information in the table of contents ContC of the index database 6 shown in FIG. The map 34 and the icon including the position of the selected location information (the location information of the name “E-cafe”, the name “Cafe EF”, and the name “Cafe G.”) Etc., and publish as content ContC.

  In the content ContD, point information of the name “Café G” is disclosed. That is, the server device 1 selects the selected point information in the POI database 5 based on “G” that is the ID of the selected point information in the content ContD table of the index database 6 shown in FIG. (Point information of the name “Café G”) is associated with the map 34 including the position of the selected point information by an icon or the like and published as content ContD.

(Evaluation of point information)
Next, the point information evaluation process will be described. The server device 1 calculates the number of associated contents for each point information (step S26). Specifically, the server apparatus 1 calculates the number of contents associated with each piece of point information based on the contents table of the index database 6 shown in FIG. For example, when calculating the number of contents associated with the location information of the name “e-cafe”, the server device 1 uses the content ContA as the content corresponding to “E” that is the ID of the location information from the content table. , ContB, and ContC exist, the number of contents is calculated as 3.

  Similarly, the server device 1 calculates the number of associated contents based on the content table for each of the other point information. The server device 1 calculates the number of contents corresponding to the point information (ID “A”) of the name “Ramen A” as 1. The server device 1 calculates the number of contents corresponding to the point information (ID “B”) of the name “B Ramen” as 1. The server apparatus 1 calculates 1 as the number of contents corresponding to the point information (ID “C”) of the name “ramen sea”. The server device 1 calculates the number of contents corresponding to the point information (ID “D”) of the name “Day Restaurant” as 1. The server apparatus 1 calculates 1 as the number of contents corresponding to the point information (ID “F”) of the name “Café F”. The server device 1 calculates the number of contents corresponding to the point information (ID “G”) of the name “Café G” as 2.

  Considering that the calculated point information with a large number of contents is point information associated with many contents, it is considered to be highly effective information. On the other hand, the point information with a small number of calculated contents is considered to be information with low effectiveness in consideration of the point information with few associated contents. The evaluation of effectiveness may be determined by the user looking at the number of contents associated with each piece of point information, or the server device 1 may determine the number of pieces of content associated with a predetermined piece of point information. If it is larger than the threshold value, it is determined that the information is highly effective, and if the number of associated contents is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, it may be determined that the information is low effectiveness.

  Further, when creating the popularity ranking of stores in a predetermined area, the server device 1 lists the point information of stores in the predetermined area in descending order of the number of calculated contents. You can create a popularity ranking of stores in the region. For example, in the above embodiment, “Cafe F” is the most popular store, “Cafe G.” is the second most popular store, and the other stores are the third most popular stores.

  Here, as a method of determining the validity of the point information, it is conceivable to calculate the number of registered my pages 24. In this case, the server device 1 calculates the number of registered My Pages for each piece of point information based on the My Page table of the index database 6 shown in FIG. Considering that the point information with a large number of My Pages is the point information registered by many users, it is considered to be highly effective information. On the other hand, it is considered that the point information with a small number of my pages is information that is less effective considering that the number of registered users is small.

  However, it is considered that it is more accurate to evaluate the effectiveness of the point information based on the calculated number of contents than to determine the validity of the point information based on the number of My Pages. . This is because determining the validity of point information based on the calculated number of contents is synonymous with determining the validity based on the number of times the user has actively wanted to disclose the point information in the content. Because it is considered that there is, it is considered that it is possible to make an accurate determination rather than determining the effectiveness based on the number of My Pages, that is, the number of times the user simply registered the location information on My Pages. Because.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the point information evaluation apparatus includes map data, point information recording means for recording a plurality of pieces of point information input by a plurality of users, and the plurality of pieces of point information. The content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by a predetermined user as content associated with a corresponding position on the map of the map data, and the plurality of pieces of point information associated with each other Content number calculating means for calculating the number of contents. The user can determine that point information with a larger number of associated contents is more effective point information, and determines that point information with a smaller number of associated contents is less effective point information. Can do. Thereby, the user can evaluate the effectiveness of point information correctly.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the whole structure of the content issuing apparatus by an Example. It is a schematic diagram which shows the flow of the display in a content issuing process. It is a flowchart which shows the method of a point information registration process. It is an example of point information. It is a flowchart which shows the method of a point information evaluation process.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Server apparatus 2 ... Network 3 ... Information terminal 4 ... Mobile telephone 5 ... POI database 6 ... Index database 10 ... Content issuing apparatus

Claims (3)

Map data,
Point information recording means for recording a plurality of pieces of point information input by a plurality of users;
Content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by a predetermined user among the plurality of pieces of point information as content associated with a corresponding position on the map of the map data;
A point information evaluation apparatus comprising: a number-of-contents calculating unit that calculates the number of contents associated with each of the plurality of pieces of point information.   The point information evaluation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content number calculation means further lists the plurality of pieces of point information in order from the point information having the largest number of the associated contents. A point information evaluation program executed by a computer having map data and point information recording means for recording a plurality of point information input by a plurality of users,
Content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by a predetermined user among the plurality of pieces of point information as content associated with corresponding positions on the map of the map data, A point information evaluation program for causing each of the computers to function as content number calculation means for calculating the number of associated contents for each of them.

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