Geotemporal Route Visualization for Digital Map Waypoints
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Solution Overview
Problem
Relational database management systems face challenges in visualizing and understanding complex relationships between data items and objects due to their fixed structure, making it difficult for users to input, review, and analyze data effectively, especially when displaying routes and features on digital maps.
Innovation Solution
A computer system and method that receives geotemporal route objects, maps them onto digital maps, and defines waypoints between chronologically adjacent vertices, allowing for the creation of journey objects with reduced data storage and bandwidth requirements, while enhancing user visual perception by displaying route vertices and waypoints on a map.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If relational database management systems are used to store and manage route data, then data can be organized in a fixed structured format, but it becomes difficult for users to understand relationships between data items and objects
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a visual copy or representation of the database data through map displays. Instead of showing raw database tables and relationships, the system copies the essential information into a visual map format where routes, vertices, and waypoints are graphically represented, making relationships immediately apparent to users
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a visual mapping intermediary layer between the relational database and the user. This intermediary translates complex database relationships into intuitive visual representations on maps, allowing users to understand data relationships without directly interacting with the underlying database structure
2Loss of information
If detailed route data with multiple vertices and waypoints is stored in the database, then comprehensive route information is available, but storage space and bandwidth requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential route information needed for visualization and analysis, separating critical data (route geometry, key vertices, waypoints) from redundant data. This extraction reduces storage requirements while maintaining the completeness of information necessary for route understanding and analysis
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments route data into hierarchical levels (routes, vertices, waypoints) and only stores and transmits the essential segments needed for each level. This segmentation allows the system to manage detailed route information efficiently by breaking down complex data structures into manageable, selectively stored components
3Ease of operation
If a separate user interface display is provided for data input and review, then users can input and modify database data, but the display area for visualizing route data is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the user interface for data input and review directly into the map display area. Instead of providing a separate interface that would reduce visualization space, the system combines both functions in the same display, allowing users to interact with route data while simultaneously viewing its visual representation on the map
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal display interface that serves multiple functions: visualizing routes, allowing data input, enabling data review, and facilitating data modification—all within the same map display area. This multi-functional interface eliminates the need for separate displays and maximizes the use of available screen space
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a computer system, configured to receive two or more instances of a first route object comprising a geotemporal attribute comprising geospatial and temporal data to define an instance of the first route object; map the two or more instances of the first route object on to digital map data to define respective first route vertices in the digital map; and receive user input defining an interval and applying the defined interval intermediate chronologically adjacent respective first route vertices to define first waypoints between the respective first route vertices.