AUTOMATED PRIORITIZATION OF MAP OBJECTS

摘要

Automatic map generation is enabled by assigning priorities to each city in a list of cities under consideration for display on a map. A mapping engine determines a reference count for each city, indicating how frequently the city appears in one or more corpora of documents. Based on the reference count, and optionally upon other data such as population and political importance, a priority score is assigned to each city. Each city is then assigned to one of a plurality of categories according to the city's priority score. A map is then generated including cities from a specified highest number of categories. In one embodiment, cities from a higher­scored category are presented in a more significant way, e.g., in capital letters, bold type, etc., than are those in the next-highest scored category.