Suggesting Interesting Dates to Explore Images in a Historical Imagery Database

摘要

A computer-implemented method, system and computer-readable medium for suggesting a date to display a historical image, is provided. A plurality of tiles corresponding to a geographic area are identified. Some or all of the geographic area can be displayed to a user. For each tile, a list of dates is identified, each date in the list associated with a historical image geolocated at a geolocation of each tile on a particular date. From the list of dates associated with each tile, an oldest date is identified. The oldest date from each list of dates associated with each tile is compiled into a suggested date list. From the suggested date list, a date is selected as the suggested date, that accounts for the age of available historical images and the availability of historical images having the suggested date within the image displayed to the user.

主权项

1. A system for suggesting a date to display an image, comprising:
a memory; a processor coupled to the memory; a historical date suggestion module stored in the memory and executing on the processor and configured to:
receive a request to display a geographic area having particular geographic coordinates to a user;identify a plurality of tiles, the plurality of tiles corresponding to the geographic area having the particular geographic coordinates in response to the received request;for each tile:
identify a list of dates, each date being associated with a historical image geolocated at a geolocation of each tile on a particular date; andidentify an oldest date in the list of dates; compile the oldest date from each tile into a suggested date list; and select a most recent date or most repeated date from the suggested date list as a suggested date for displaying the historical image, whereby the suggested date is selected to account for the age of available historical images and the availability of historical images having the suggested date within the image displayed to the user.