Determining information about a location based on travel related to the location

摘要

Methods and apparatus related to determining a characteristic of a location based on visit data associated with the location. Visit data indicative of travel of users to a first location from one or more other locations and/or of travel of users from the first location to one or more other locations may be utilized to determine information about the location. In some implementations visit data may be utilized to determine a connectedness measure and associate the second location with the first location based on the connectedness measure. A characteristic of the first location may optionally be determined based on a characteristic of the second location and/or an attribute associated with the visit data.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
identifying, by one or more processors, a first location associated with a first geographic location; identifying, by the one or more processors, a second location associated with a second geographic location; identifying visit data indicative of physical visits to one of the first and second locations that originated from the other of the first and second locations; determining a first time value indicative of time spent at the first location during one or more of the physical visits; determining a second time value indicative of time spent at the second location during one or more of the physical visits; determining, by the one or more processors, a connectedness measure between the first location and the second location based on the visit data, the connectedness measure indicative of correlation between the first location and the second location, wherein the connectedness measure is based on a quantity of physical visits to one of the first and second locations that originated from the other of the first and second locations as indicated by the visit data, as well as the first time value and the second time value; storing, by the one or more processors, in a machine-readable database, an indication of correlation between the first location and the second location when the connectedness measure satisfies a connectedness threshold; and ranking, by the one or more processors, the first or second location based at least in part on the connectedness measure.