Information presentation method and information processing apparatus
An information presentation method is for outputting information related to a stop position of a mobile body to a user terminal in an information processing system for lending a cabin of the mobile body. The method includes registering position information representing a stop position of the mobile body, and registering purpose information representing a purpose of use of the cabin of the mobile body. The method also includes outputting, to the user terminal, trend information representing a trend of a purpose of use of the cabin in an area including the position information of mobile bodies. The trend information is output on the basis of correspondence information by which the position information of the mobile bodies is correlated with the purpose information of the mobile bodies.
1 . An information presentation method of outputting information related to a stop position of a mobile body to a user terminal in an information processing system for lending a cabin of the mobile body, the information presentation method comprising:
registering position information representing a stop position of the mobile body in an area;
registering purpose information representing a purpose of use of the cabin of the mobile body in the lending of the cabin; and
transmitting, to the user terminal, trend information representing a trend of the purpose information representing purposes of use of cabins of mobile bodies in the area in a past and including position information of the mobile bodies, the trend information being transmitted based on correspondence information by which the position information of the mobile bodies is correlated with the purpose information of the mobile bodies;
setting unit areas of map data in the area under a condition that the unit areas do not cross predetermined roads included in the map data;
displaying the trend information on a map on a touch panel of the user terminal, the displaying of the trend information including:
displaying a piece of the purpose information as a first rank by an icon or color-coding for each unit area of the map data on the map; and
displaying adjacent ones of the unit areas, whose trend information includes same ranks of the purpose information, by combining the adjacent ones of the unit areas into a single unit area, while displaying the piece of the purpose information of the first rank by the icon or the color-coding; and
setting at least a part of a stop period of the mobile body at the stop position as a lending period of the cabin of the mobile body and controlling the mobile body to one of permit or prohibit travelling of the mobile body during the lending period.
2 . The information presentation method according to claim 1 , further comprising, when one of the unit areas among the unit areas is designated by a user via the touch panel of the user terminal, displaying, in a pop-up on the touch panel, an icon corresponding to a piece of the purpose information as a second or lower rank in the trend information of the one of the unit areas designated by the user.