Passive crowd-sourced map updates and alternate route recommendations

摘要

The claimed subject matter is directed to systems and methods for providing passive crowd-sourced alternate route recommendations. In one embodiment, locations of users of a number of mobile location-aware devices are tracked over time. Upon receiving a request, users of mobile location-aware devices that have traveled from a desired start location to a desired stop location are identified. At least one of the different routes taken by one or more users from the desired start location to the desired stop location is provided to the requestor as at least one recommended alternate route. The different routes taken by the one or more users from the desired start location to the desired stop location include routes taken that begin before the desired start location and go through the start location and routes taken that stop beyond the desired stop location and go through the desired stop location.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
tracking locations of a plurality of users of a plurality of mobile location-aware devices over time; receiving an alternate route request from a requestor, the alternate route request identifying a desired start location and a desired stop location; determining, by a processor, at least one of one or more different routes taken by one or more users of the plurality of users from the desired start location to the desired stop location to provide to the requestor as at least one recommended alternate route, wherein the one or more users includes users other than the requestor and the different routes taken by the one or more users from the desired start location to the desired stop location include routes taken that begin before the desired start location and go through the start location and routes taken that stop beyond the desired stop location and go through the desired stop location; and enabling the at least one recommended alternate route to be provided to the requestor.