JP2003067383A - Method of extracting geographic link information, and method of providing display service for map information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate requirement for holding a map corresponding to a place name, and additional information therefor individually, as a data, to provide information related to geographic features and a display format, from a remote site, and to set the data to a structured document to provide service for displaying map information from the remote site, in the site capable of using the Internet, where the structured document is disclosed by a web server. SOLUTION: The geographic information is extracted out of the structured document stored preliminarily in a service requiring machine, to output link structure having the map information corresponding to the corresponding geographic information, and its display format. The structured document is changed on the service requiring machine based on the information, and a system is provided to display the map information by the service requiring machine, according to requirement thereof, when the service requiring machine requires the information.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a web server system, and more particularly to a web server system and a geographic information system for remotely displaying map information in response to access to a structured document related to geographic information. A distributed Web server that manages information that is additionally present in characters in a document, such as geographical information, in a plurality of servers with data distributed corresponding to the type, and provides users with services according to the type of information. Systems and distributed geographical information systems.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when displaying geographic information included in a structured document on a Web server, a map or the like corresponding to the geographic information is individually created and inserted into the document.

In a conventional system for displaying map information on a Web server system, a machine that holds geographic information and a machine that holds map information corresponding to geographic information are the same machine, and are provided as functions unique to the machine. It was

[0004]

In the conventional method, the geographical information is searched for whether or not there is map information, and the map is written using a dedicated editor or the like, and the We
The work needed to be converted into a format that can be displayed on b.

A Web for displaying a map remotely
Even if there is a server system, there is no way to use the services in the server by directly linking to the server, accessing the server, and there is no form of using map information, so the usage is quite limited. I could only do it.

[0006] In order to freely display the map on the Web server, the map information must be held on the Web server, and the Web server is also monetary in terms of the amount of money due to a large amount of information and the license fee for publishing the map. It had to be expensive.

The present invention is a We requesting the display of map information.
b. By providing the server machine with the access and display format of the map information corresponding to the geographical information from the remote, the map information display remote that transfers the data of the related map information remotely by the access according to the format. It is intended to provide services.

[0008]

In order to solve the above problems, in the invention according to claim 1, a step of urging the input of a structured document structured based on predetermined constituent elements,
A step of extracting a noun from the input structured text, and a step of searching a noun dictionary of geographical information that can be linked with pre-stored map information to see if the extracted noun exists in the dictionary. , A map access format mapping table indicating the geographic nouns and their display formats obtained as a result of the search is extracted, and the input structured document is converted in a form according to the user's request of the service requesting machine. , And is extracted as geographical link information.

In the invention according to the second aspect, the geographic link information is embedded in the structured document input from the service requesting machine and is displayed by the user of the service requesting machine to be acquired or embedded information. Is provided to the user, thereby providing a display function from a remote location.

According to a third aspect of the invention, in order to allow the user to select from a plurality of display formats, an interface describing the image to be actually displayed and its embedded format is provided.

The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that a display format in which hierarchical data according to a scale of a map and categories of components on the map is combined is possible.

[0012] In the invention described in claims 5 and 6, it is characterized in that the information related to the map is included in the geographic information including the information other than the information described in the normal map.

In the inventions of claim 7, claim 8 and claim 9, it is possible to display the same screen, the same screen but with different frames, or different screens as the form displayed on the service requesting machine. It is characterized by

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a network configuration for realizing the service providing method of this embodiment.
In this figure, reference numeral M1 is a service requesting machine and reference numeral M2 is a service providing machine, both of which are connected to the Internet or an intranet.
Here, the service requesting machine has an input unit such as a keyboard and a mouse as well as a display unit such as a CRT or LCD.
In such a network system, a person who requests a service operates the input unit of the service requesting machine,
Receive desired information. On the other hand, the information provider
The data to be provided is registered in the service providing machine by performing a predetermined operation.

Before explaining the service providing system, the contents of information registered in advance in the service providing machine M2 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a process of extracting a geographical noun and a relation table in the service providing machine M2. Reference symbol P1 is given map information and map attribute information. Reference numeral P2 is a geographical noun and attribute information extraction processing unit. Code P3 is a geographical noun dictionary, and code P4
Is a geographical noun and map access format mapping table.

The geographic noun / attribute information extraction processing section P2 extracts geographic nouns which are described as proper nouns on the map and have corresponding map information from the given map information and map attribute information, and the geography thereof. A process of storing a noun and a corresponding map information access format in a table format as a pair is performed. Here, as the access format to the map information, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) designation, U
Various methods are conceivable, such as specification of RL, start program, and its parameters.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of a process of processing the input from the service requesting machine M1, extracting the map access format, and outputting the map access format in the service providing machine M2. Reference numeral S1 is an input processing unit that processes an input from the service requesting machine M1. Reference numeral S2 is a noun extraction processing unit that extracts a noun from the input Japanese data. Code S
Reference numeral 3 is a noun dictionary that stores noun words, and is composed of attribute information such as noun words and change forms. Code S4
Is a geographic noun extraction unit that further extracts a geographic noun from the nouns extracted by the noun processing unit S2. The geographic noun extraction unit S4 extracts nouns that can be collated with reference to the information of the geographic noun dictionary P3. Reference numeral S5 is a map access format extraction unit that refers to the geographic noun and map access format mapping table P4 based on the geographic noun extracted by the geographic noun extraction unit S4 and extracts the map access format that can be collated. Reference numeral S6 is a map access format embedding processing unit that embeds the map access format extracted by the map access format extraction unit S5 in the Japanese data input from the service requesting machine M1. Code S
An output processing unit 7 outputs a structured document in which the map access format is embedded in the input Japanese data to the service requesting machine M1.

In the input processing section S1, by providing a menu screen for the service requesting machine M1,
Information is received as a word or Japanese data from the input unit of the service requesting machine M1, syntactic analysis is performed on the information to extract morphemes, and the data is passed to the noun extraction unit.
In the output processing unit S7, a screen is provided for the service requesting machine M1 to send the structured document in which the access format is embedded to the service requesting machine M1.

FIG. 4 is a transition chart of a screen displayed on the service requesting machine M1 in order to determine the operation of the program processed in the service providing machine M2. Hereinafter, a mouse cursor is displayed on the screen, and various operations can be performed by clicking a predetermined place.

First, in the input processing section S1, the menu screen F1 is displayed to allow the user using the service requesting machine M1 to select either word processing input or batch document input. When the word processing input is selected on the menu screen F1, the word processing input screen F2
Is displayed. If batch input is selected,
The batch process input screen F4 is displayed. When the method of uploading data is selected on the batch process input screen F4, the data is transferred to the service providing machine M2 by shifting to the upload screen and selecting a file.

With the Japanese data obtained in the input processing unit S1, the noun extraction unit S2, the geographical noun extraction unit S4, and the map access format extraction unit S5 are processed, and finally a plurality of display formats for one geographical noun are displayed. To win. On the word processing display format selection screen F3 and the batch processing display format selection screen F6, the input Japanese data, the map corresponding to the word, and its access format are displayed. A user of the data requesting machine M1 selects a desired display format from a plurality of display formats and confirms it, whereby the embedded format in the structured document is determined. In the case of only inputting a word, the output sentence is determined at that stage, and for the collective sentence, the map access format embedding processing unit S6 forms the final output document based on the selected result.

In the output processing section S7, a selection is made as to whether to transfer the final embedded structured document obtained from the batch processing display selection screen F6 by download or to give it to the user of the service requesting machine M1 by outputting the document. It is selected by the batch processing output screen F7.
When download is selected, the file is designated on the download screen F8 and the service providing machine M2
File is transferred from the server to the service requesting machine M1.
When the structured document output is selected, the sentence is displayed on the document output screen F9.

An example of the word processing input screen is shown in FIG. As shown in this figure, in the word processing input screen, the input area 51 from the user of the service requesting machine M1 and the execution button for activating the input and confirming the input in the window and sending the data to the service providing machine 52,
Further, a clear button 53 for clearing the contents of the input area is displayed. In the input area 51, a word or a unit of Japanese larger than a word and smaller than a sentence is input.

An example of the batch process input screen is shown in FIG. As shown in this figure, in the batch process input screen,
A radio button indicating whether to directly upload the file on the service requesting machine M1 or directly input the text is displayed in the window. When uploading, the file can be specified by specifying the file to be uploaded in the area 54 with the full path. If the path or the like is not clear and cannot be directly input, the reference button 55 is used to search the disk on the service requesting machine and refer to the file. When the text is directly input, the data is input in the area 56.

When the execute button 52 is clicked on the word processing input screen shown in FIG. 5, a word processing display format selection screen as shown in FIG. 7, for example, is displayed. In the word processing display format selection screen, a word input in the window and one candidate of map information corresponding to the word are displayed in the area 59. Actually, the map information corresponding to a word can be displayed in a plurality of numbers due to different scales and other display information. The operation of selecting one piece of map information from the plurality of pieces of map information is changed by clicking the left direction button 57 and the right direction button 58, and the user is allowed to select it. It should be noted that the structured document of the access format to the displayed map information is displayed in the area 60.
In the area 60, the structured document of the access format corresponding to the change of the map in the area 59 is displayed. When the user selects the appropriate map information, the user clicks the execute button 52 to notify the service providing machine M2.

By clicking the execute button 52 on the batch process input screen shown in FIG. 6, a batch process display format selection screen is displayed as shown in FIG. 8, for example. The batch processing display format selection screen has an area 61 for displaying the input document in the window. In the area 61, the geographical noun portion is displayed in different colors together with the document. By clicking the geographical noun with the mouse, one candidate of map information is displayed in the area 59. When a plurality of pieces of map information are extracted, it is possible to select one map suitable for the user by switching the map information with the left direction button 57 and the right direction button 58. Similar to the word processing display format selection screen, the corresponding structured information in the map information access format is displayed in the area 60. When the selection of one selected geographical noun is completed, the word display confirmation button 62 is clicked to confirm the display format. By repeating this operation, the structured document corresponding to the geographical noun can be confirmed over all the documents, and finally by clicking the all document confirmation button 63, the selection of the display format over the entire input document is confirmed.

When the all document confirmation button 63 is clicked on the batch processing display format selection screen, the batch processing output screen shown in FIG. 9 is displayed. On the batch processing output screen, a radio button for displaying whether to directly download the file to the service requesting machine M1 or display the screen to directly output the text is displayed in the window. Press one of the buttons and press the execute button 52
Determine the operation by clicking. When downloading, as in the case of uploading from the word processing input screen, a screen for designating the area to be downloaded is displayed, and when it is directly displayed, the structured text output screen is displayed.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is not necessary to store a large amount of data such as map information in each machine, and large-scale geographical information can be provided by using the described remote service.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a network configuration in which a service is provided.

[Explanation of symbols]

M1 service request machine M2 service providing machine

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a geographical noun and related table extraction processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

P1 map information, map attribute information P2 Geographic noun and attribute information extraction processing unit P3 Geographic noun dictionary P4 Geographic noun, map access format mapping table

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a map access format extraction process.

[Explanation of symbols]

S1 input processing unit S2 noun extractor S3 noun dictionary S4 Geographical noun extractor S5 Map access format extraction unit S6 Map access format embedding processor S7 output processing unit

FIG. 4 is a screen transition chart.

[Explanation of symbols]

F1 menu screen F2 word processing input screen F3 word processing display format selection screen F4 Batch input screen F5 upload screen F6 Batch processing display format selection screen F7 Batch processing output screen F8 download screen F9 character output screen

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a word processing screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

51 Input area 52 execute button 53 Clear button

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining a configuration of a batch processing input screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

54 File name input area 55 Reference button 56 Text input area

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a word processing display format selection screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

57 Left button 58 Right button 59 Map display area 60 Structured document display area

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining a configuration of a batch processing display format selection screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

61 Input document display area 62 Word display confirmation button 63 All document confirmation button

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a batch processing output screen.

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Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. In a network environment in which a plurality of and unspecified users exist such as the Internet or an intranet, a service requesting machine that does not hold map information by itself is structured including geographical information held by the service requesting machine. Accept documents as a batch or part of information, extract a dictionary consisting of a geographic noun dictionary and its attribute information, and a mapping table that corresponds to the access format of geographic nouns to map information in advance, and use that information. A method for extracting geographic link information, which comprises converting the structured document into a format conforming to a request of a service requesting machine and extracting the geographic link information. 2. The geographic link information extracted as an access format to the service providing machine is embedded in a structured document received as an input from the service requesting machine, and is provided as information to a user of the service requesting machine. A method for providing a map information display service, characterized in that the display function is provided remotely by the method. 3. The service providing machine has a default display format or a map for the service requesting machine in order to select one display format suitable for the service requesting machine from the obtained display formats. It is characterized by presenting a display format of information and providing an interface for allowing a user who manages a structured document to select one. 4. The map information can be displayed in a plurality of display formats by combining scale changes and a plurality of hierarchical data of the map information. 5. The geographical information includes a place name, an address, a zip code,
It is characterized by a telephone number and name. 6. The geographical information is a building name and its floor, a proper noun of the building, and a proper noun related to a place name. 7. The display format displays map information as a part of a client screen for accessing a service requesting machine. 8. The display format is displayed in one or a plurality of frames in a client screen for accessing a service requesting machine. 9. The display format is displayed as a screen different from a client screen for accessing the service requesting machine.