JP2008040868A - Content issuing device and content issuing program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a content issuing device capable of easily disclosing a content including point information. <P>SOLUTION: The content issuing device is, for example, a server and a database connected to a network like the Internet and includes map data, a point information recording means, and a content disclosing means. A CPU of the server device 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 disclosing means discloses a content as a content related with a corresponding position on a map of map data. Thus, users can use already registered point information and can easily issue a content including 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 content issuing method.

  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.

  Patent Document 1 describes a technique for creating travel guide information suitable for a user when the user selects content.

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 2004-69438 A

  However, in the technologies described in the above documents, when a user creates content including point information and wants to publish the content on the Internet, such as latitude, longitude, name, address, telephone number, comment, etc. It is necessary to register the location information in the database each time. That is, even if another user has already registered and disclosed the spot information at the same position, the user cannot divert it, and it is inconvenient because he / she has to register the spot information again.

  This invention is made in view of said point, and makes it a subject to provide the content issuing apparatus which can publish the content containing point information easily.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, in the content issuing device, the map data, the point information recording unit that records the plurality of pieces of point information input by a plurality of users, and the predetermined point among the plurality of pieces of point information. 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.

  The invention according to claim 3 is a content issuing program that is executed by a computer including map data and point information recording means for recording a plurality of point information input by a plurality of users, The computer is caused to function as a content publishing unit that publishes one or more pieces of point information selected by a predetermined user among a plurality of pieces of point information as content associated with a corresponding position on the map of the map data.

  In one aspect of the present invention, the content issuing device includes map data, point information recording means for recording a plurality of point information input by a plurality of users, and a predetermined user among the plurality of point information. Content publishing means for publishing one or more pieces of point information selected by the above as content associated with a corresponding position on the map of the map data.

  The content issuing 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, and content publishing 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. Thereby, the user can divert the already registered spot information, and can easily issue content including the spot information.

  In one aspect of the content publishing apparatus, the content publishing unit further publishes the content by adding a theme input by the predetermined user to the content. Thereby, the user can give a theme for every content.

  In another aspect of the present invention, a content issuing program executed by a computer including map data and point information recording means for recording a plurality of point information input by a plurality of users is the plurality of points. Of the information, the computer is caused to function as a content publishing unit that publishes 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. Also with this program, the user can divert the already registered spot information, and can easily issue content including the spot 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 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 content issuing process described later is performed by the CPU executing the content issuing process program of the present invention recorded in the memory.

(Registration of point information)
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a display flow in the content issuing process of the present invention. First, 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 Has been. Therefore, 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 displays point information corresponding to the position of the icon 41 on the area map 32 by clicking the icon 41. 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.

  In addition, the server apparatus 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 apparatus 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.

(Publishing content)
Next, content issue processing will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the content issuing process. Content issuance processing can be broadly divided into three stages: registration of location information on My Page, selection of location information to be disclosed, and content issuance.

  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”, and “E”, the point information corresponding to each ID (name “Ramen A”, name “B Ramen”, Display the name “Ramen Sea” and the name “E Cafe”. 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 issue processing 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, when the user wants to issue predetermined content ContA including predetermined point information (name information “ramen sea” and name “e-cafe”), The point information desired to be disclosed to the content ContA is selected from a plurality 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 the present embodiment, it is assumed that the user selects two pieces of point information of the name “Ramen Sea” and the 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 table of content ContA.

  The server device 1 uses the selected point information (name “ramen / rench”) in the POI database 5 based on the IDs “C” and “E” of the selected point information in the content Cont A table of the index database 6. Each location information of “SE” and the name “E-Café” is associated with the map 34 including the position of the selected location information with an icon or the like, and published as content ContA. In the issued content ContA, the position of the corresponding point is automatically arranged on the map by an icon or the like.

  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 specifying (Uniform Resource Locator) or the like, the server device 1 can be accessed and the content ContA file can be downloaded from the server device 1 to the terminal device 3. .

  In this way, the server device 1 issues the content ContA including the predetermined spot information (name spot information of “ramen sea” and name “e-cafe”) as indicated by an arrow 57 in FIG. (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. Also, other users not only access the regional information portal site 22 but also access the content ContA to obtain location information (location information of the name “ramen sea” and name “e-cafe”). Can be displayed.

  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.

  In addition, the user can make point information (name “Day Restaurant” and name “Café F”) published in the content ContB created by the user or by a third party other than the user. Information) can also be registered in My Page as shown by the arrow 58 in FIG. Specifically, the user temporarily displays the point information published in the content ContB as the POI display page 23 and registers it by clicking the “Register to My Page” icon 43. The user can also newly disclose the spot information registered in this way as the spot information of his / her content.

  As described above, in this embodiment, the content issuing device includes map data, point information recording means for recording a plurality of point information input by a plurality of users, and the plurality of point information. 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. Thereby, the user can divert the already registered spot information, and can easily issue content including the spot information.

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 content issuing 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. Content issuing device.   The content publishing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content publishing unit further publishes the content by adding a theme input by the predetermined user to the content. A content publishing 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,
Causing the computer to function as a content publishing unit that publishes 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 content publishing program characterized by this.

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