METHODS OF OBTAINING POINT OF INTEREST DATA

摘要

A method of generating a personalised recommendation of a plurality of points of interest (POIs) for a user involves generating a route between an origin and a destination. A plurality of waypoints are defined at a predetermined spacing along the route, and search areas of a predetermined size are defined, centred on each waypoint. Personalisation data for the user is obtained from one or more social media websites. For each one of the defined search areas, the POI present within the search area are identified, and descriptive data relating to attributes of each of the identified POIs obtained. The POIs identified in each search area are ranked based on at least a comparison of the personalisation data and the descriptive data relating to each of the respective POIs, and a subset of the identified POIs are selected for inclusion in the personalised POI recommendation for the user based on the determined ranking. Data is generated indicative of the or each selected identified POI, and used to display an indication of each POI to the user.