SPATIALLY CODING AND DISPLAYING INFORMATION

摘要

A computer system (20) includes storage system (22) which contains information in the form of documents, along with a spatial information about the documents. The computer system (20) also includes subsystems for data collection (30), data analysis (40), search (50), data presentation (60), and portal services (70). The computer system (20) further includes a map interface (80). Through the map interface (80), users can query the storage (22) and view a representation of the query results arranged on a map.