SHARED IMAGE DATABASE WITH GEOGRAPHIC NAVIGATION

摘要

There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was captured. A search engine for the image database is configured to accept geographic coordinates as a search criterion for locating at least one captured image stored in the shared image database. The images having location coordinates within a predefined range of geographic coordinates is displayed to the user.

主权项

1. A method at a server comprising:
maintaining, in memory of the server, a shared image database, the shared image database comprising images stored in association with a geographic location; receiving a request from a client device, the request comprising a requested geographic location; searching the shared image database for images corresponding to the requested geographic location; transmitting the images corresponding to the requested geographic location to the client device.