Method, system, and computer program product for obtaining crowd-sourced location information

摘要

Systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces are provided to receive location tags from a plurality of user devices (a location tag including a location category and a location corresponding to a geographic location of a user device from which the location tag is received), identify a first set of location tags comprising a given location category, determine whether a cluster location exists for locations of the set of location tags, generate a moderation request for a location tag of the set of location tags in response to determining that a cluster location does not exists for locations of the set of location tags, receive moderator approval of the location tag, and store a geographic location corresponding to the location tag as a point of interest associated with the given location category in response to receiving moderator approval of the location tag.

主权项

1. A method of obtaining location information from user devices, the method comprising:
receiving location tags from a plurality of user devices, a location tag comprising a location category and a location corresponding to a geographic location of a user device from which the location tag is received; identifying a first set of location tags comprising a given location category; determining whether a cluster location exists for locations of the set of location tags; in response to determining that a cluster location does not exists for locations of the set of location tags, generating a moderation request for a location tag of the set of location tags; receiving moderator approval of the location tag; and in response to receiving moderator approval of the location tag, storing a geographic location corresponding to the location tag as a point of interest associated with the given location category.