System and method for providing an electronic representation of a route
View Patent ↗Disclosed is a computer systems, methods and computer program products for providing an electronic representation of a route. A display device displays a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route including: a first display comprising an origin location area representation; a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location area representations along the route; and a last display of a destination location area representation. The at least one ground level image can be a photographic image. A record of a route is recorded by a GPS device.
1. A method of providing an electronic representation of a route, comprising, in at least one computer and a computer readable storage medium or media including computer code:
accessing a record of a route traveled by a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the record of the route comprises point-to-point locations recorded by a GPS device associated with the vehicle;
receiving a plurality of ground level area representations of locations corresponding locations along the recorded route including an origin location and a destination location;
the at least one computer and the computer readable storage medium or media including computer code that causes the at least one computer to cause a display device to display thereon:
a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a real-time first person view of the route as travelled including:
a first display comprising an origin location area ground level representation;
a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location area ground level representations along the route; and
a last display of a destination location area ground level representation.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the area representation for each location comprises at least one ground level image representation of the location.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one ground level image is a photographic image.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:
receiving a record of a route recorded by a GPS device.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:
accessing a record of the route on a computer configured store GPS data accessing a map database to displaying the route as a map.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:
displaying the plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a first person view of the route.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the method further comprises:
configuring the computer to provide to a graphic user interface an user-interactive interface to control and replay the ground level sequential displays.
8. The method of claim 6 wherein the method comprises:
receiving a record of a route recorded by a GPS device; and
displaying the plurality of sequential displays in a time sequence different than that of the speed of the GPS recorded route.
9. The method of claim 7 wherein the method further comprises:
providing, for at least one of the plurality of locations, a plurality of area representations configured to display a 360 degree view of the location for the first person view.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:
accessing a database storing a plurality of the recorded routes;
wherein the at least one computer and the computer readable storage medium or media includes computer code that causes the at least one computer to cause a display device to display thereon, for each stored route, the plurality of sequential displays of the area representations along the recorded route.
11. A computer system including at least one computer processor and computer readable storage medium or media including computer code configured to provide an electronic representation of a route, the system comprising:
one or more processors programmed at least to
access, from a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, a record of a route traveled by a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the record of the route comprises of point-to-point GPS location data recorded by a GPS device associated with the vehicle;
receive a plurality of ground level area representations of locations corresponding locations along the recorded route including an origin location and a destination location; and
cause a display device to display thereon a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a real-time first person view of the route including
a first display comprising an origin location area ground level representation;
a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location ground level area representations along the route; and
a last display of a destination location area ground level representation.
12. The computer system of claim 1 wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to:
receive at least one ground level image representation for each location along the route.
13. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the at least one ground level image comprises a photographic image.
14. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to:
access a record of a route recorded by a GPS device.
15. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to:
access a record of the route for provision to a computer configured to display the route as map.
16. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to cause the display to:
cause the display device to display thereon the plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a first person view of the route.
17. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the computer is configured to provide to a graphic user interface a user-interactive interface to control and replay the ground level sequential displays.
18. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to:
receive a record of a route recorded by a GPS device; and
cause the display device to display thereon the plurality of sequential displays in a time sequence different than that of the speed of the GPS recorded route.
19. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to:
provide, for at least one of the plurality of locations, a plurality of area representations configured to display a 360 degree view of the location for the first person view.
20. The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to:
store a plurality of the recorded routes; and
cause the display device to display thereon, for each stored route, the plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route.
21. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one processor within a computer system that comprises one or more processors and a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, cause the computer system at least to:
access, in a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, a record of a route traveled by a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the record of the route comprises point-to-point GPS location data recorded by a GPS device associated with the vehicle as traveled;
receive a plurality of ground level area representations of locations corresponding locations along the recorded route including an origin location and a destination location; and
cause display device to display thereon a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a real-time first person view of the route including
a first display comprising an origin location ground level area representation;
a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location ground level area representations along the route; and
a last display of a destination location ground level area representation.