JP2013246036A - Information providing device, information providing method, and information providing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing device for providing information useful for a moving user.SOLUTION: An information providing device 100 acquires provision data and first route information from a server 200 that stores the provision data to be provided to a user in association with the first route information on a moving route of a person who has transmitted the provision data, and provides the moving user with the provision data. The information providing device 100 includes: route information acquiring means for acquiring second route information including a route on which the user is moving; data acquiring means that extracts provision data corresponding to the first route information having predetermined similarity or higher with the second route information acquired by the route information acquiring means, from among the provision data in the server 200; and data providing means that provides the user with the acquired provision data.

Description

  The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for distributing information to a moving user.

  There is a demand to distribute useful information to users who are moving by car or the like. The useful information includes, for example, weather information of the destination, traffic information on the route, and information on facilities that can be stopped along the route. Since information that can be used by a moving user is limited, an apparatus that distributes information needs to determine whether or not the information to be distributed is necessary for the user.

  Patent Document 1 describes an invention in which vehicle-mounted communication devices mounted on different vehicles communicate with each other to exchange spot information registered in a navigation device, that is, favorite spot information. The navigation device according to the present invention can estimate the spots that the user seems to like from the stored travel history, and can exchange the spot information of the genre when it is determined that the preferences of each other are similar. .

JP 2006-133182 A

  The technique described in Patent Document 1 has a feature that the point information registered in the navigation device can be shared according to the user's preference. Since information of a genre that is not of interest to the user is not notified, there is a low possibility that the notified information is wasted. However, the invention has the following two problems.

  The first problem is that only limited information can be shared. Only location information registered in advance can be shared by operating the navigation device, so information other than registered location information, such as weather and traffic conditions, information on events being held at the facility, etc. are shared Can not do it. It is possible to share information other than the registered point information by acquiring information from the sensor or the like each time the navigation device, but there is a restriction that information that can be shared is limited to that which can be acquired from the sensor or the like. .

  In order to provide a variety of information to users on the move, not limited to such limited information, a mechanism that collects aggregated information that is sent directly from people, such as posts posted on the Internet Must be built.

  The second problem is that users traveling on different routes to different destinations share information, so the shared information does not necessarily match the information that the user wants. .

This problem will be described in detail. For example, if there is a car heading from a ski resort to an interchange on a highway, it can be estimated that the user is going home after skiing. In this case, information on places where local dishes can be eaten and hot springs that can heal fatigue can be useful to users. However, if the preference "Museum" is registered in this car navigation device, the registered preference is given priority, and as a result of sharing information with local cars, there is a mismatch that guides nearby museums. Will occur.

  To solve this problem, people who are traveling for the same purpose share information with other users who are going skiing, such as sharing information with users who are also going skiing. We have to provide a mechanism.

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide an information providing apparatus capable of providing useful information to a moving user.

  In order to achieve the above object, the information providing apparatus according to the present invention provides information by the following means.

  The information providing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention associates provided data, which is data provided to a user, with first route information, which is information about a moving route of a sender of the provided data. An information providing apparatus that obtains the provision data and first route information from a storing server and provides the provision data to a moving user, and includes a route on which the user is moving. Route information acquisition means for acquiring the route information, and the second route information obtained by the route information acquisition means corresponding to the first route information out of the provided data possessed by the server and a predetermined value Data acquisition means for extracting provided data having the above similarity and data presentation means for presenting the acquired provided data to the user.

  The provided data to be distributed to the user is stored in the server in association with the first route information representing the route on which the information sender is moving. On the other hand, the information providing apparatus can acquire second route information representing a route on which the user is currently moving. The information providing device compares the two pieces of route information to calculate the similarity, and when the degree of similarity is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, obtains the provision information corresponding to the first route information and provides it to the user To do. By configuring in this way, it is possible to provide information transmitted by other users whose movement routes are similar. Further, since the provided data is acquired from the server via the network, any data uploaded by other users can be acquired.

  The data acquisition means corresponds to data collection means for acquiring the provided data and first route information from the server, and data storage means for storing the acquired provision data and first route information. One route information may comprise data extraction means for extracting provided data having a similarity equal to or higher than a predetermined value with the second route information from the data storage means.

  In this way, the acquired provided data can be temporarily stored, and data extraction can be performed on the stored data.

  Further, the data collecting means classifies the provided data into genres according to the contents of the provided data, the data storage means stores the provided data in association with the classified genre, and the data extracting means May further extract the provision data corresponding to the genre designated by the user.

  The acquired text information can be classified by genre by natural language processing or the like. The genre can be divided into, for example, “weather information”, “traffic information”, “facility information”, and the like. Information that cannot be classified by genre may be ignored. In this way, only information desired by the user can be provided.

  Further, the provided data is text data, the data collection means creates position information representing a position where the information is transmitted from the contents of the provided data, and the data storage means creates the provided data The information may be stored together with the positional information.

  The provided data may be added with location information indicating the location where the provided data is created. The position information to be added may be any information as long as the position where the information is transmitted can be directly or indirectly specified. For example, the coordinates may be expressed in latitude and longitude, or the name of a facility that can be uniquely specified. The data collection means uses the coordinates when the coordinates are added, otherwise estimates the location by means such as language analysis and creates position information. By doing in this way, since the position where information was transmitted can be shown to a user, the usefulness of information improves.

  The information providing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes a current position acquisition unit that acquires a current position, and the data extraction unit is stored together with the acquired current position and the provided data. The provided data may be extracted by further considering the result of comparison with the position information.

  It would be useless to provide information about points that are difficult to reach for moving users. Therefore, the current position of the user is compared with the position where the provision data is transmitted, and the provision data is provided only when the information can be determined to be useful for the user from the comparison result. The case where the information can be determined to be useful is, for example, the case where the position where the provision data is generated is near the current position, or the case where the position where the provision data is generated is near a point where the provision data is going. Any other criteria may be used as long as the usefulness of the information can be determined. In this way, only information necessary for the user can be provided.

  The information providing apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention includes a data input unit that receives an input of provided data from a user, the input provided data, and route information acquired by the route information acquiring unit. Data transmission means for transmitting to the server.

  The information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention has only a function of receiving information, but by configuring in this way, a function of transmitting information can be added. The data transmitted to the server can be received by the information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment.

  The information providing apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention further includes a current position acquisition unit that acquires a position when the user inputs provided data, and the data transmission unit includes the acquired current The location may be transmitted together with the input provided data and route information.

  By configuring in this way, the user can accurately know the position where the provided data is transmitted, so that the usefulness of the information is improved.

  The server may be a server that provides a social networking service. The information providing apparatus according to the present invention is suitable for a system that collects and provides data posted to a social networking service.

In addition, this invention can be specified as an information provision apparatus containing at least one part of the said means. Further, the present invention can be specified as an information providing method including at least a part of the above processing, or can be specified as a program for causing an information providing apparatus to execute these methods. The above processes and means can be freely combined and implemented as long as no technical contradiction occurs.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the information provision apparatus which can provide useful information to the moving user can be provided.

1 is a system configuration diagram of an information providing apparatus according to a first embodiment. It is an example of the message information and route information collected by the data collection unit. This is keyword information for classification performed by the data classification unit. It is an example of the message information classified by the data classification part. It is a process flowchart figure of the information provision apparatus which concerns on 1st embodiment. It is a 1st figure explaining similarity calculation of route information. It is a 2nd figure explaining similarity calculation of route information. It is a system block diagram of the information provision apparatus which concerns on 2nd embodiment. It is a process flowchart figure of the information provision apparatus which concerns on 2nd embodiment. It is a system block diagram of the information provision apparatus which concerns on 3rd embodiment. It is a figure explaining the routing information concerning a third embodiment.

(First embodiment)
<System configuration>
An outline of the information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment will be described. The information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment is an in-vehicle information providing apparatus that acquires information transmitted to a server on the Internet by a moving information sender from the server and provides the information to the user.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an information providing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. The information providing apparatus 100 can be configured by a CPU, a main storage device, an auxiliary storage device, and an input / output device. Each unit shown in FIG. 1 functions by loading a program stored in the auxiliary storage device into the main storage device and executing it by the CPU. Note that all or part of the information providing apparatus 100 may be executed using a circuit designed exclusively.

  The data collection unit 101 is a route that is information about data (provided data in the present invention) provided to the user from the server 200 connected via the network and a route along which the information sender that sent the data travels. Means for receiving information. The data provided to the user may be in any format, but in the present embodiment, it is information composed of text, which is called message information. The route information of the information sender is called sender route information.

  The data classification unit 102 is means for determining the content of message text included in the received message information and classifying the information. A known natural language processing technique can be applied to the data classification unit 102. For example, when there is a word expressing the weather, it is determined that the weather is described, and an identifier of weather information is given. If it is determined that the road situation or travel time is mentioned, an identifier called traffic information is given. If classification is not possible, the identifier is not given because the usefulness of the information cannot be determined. The data collection unit 101 and the data classification unit 102 are data collection means in the present invention.

The data storage unit 103 is data storage means in the present invention, and is means for storing received message information and caller route information. The data storage unit 103 includes a message table that stores message information and a route information table that stores sender route information. The detailed structure of the stored data will be described later.

  The data extraction unit 104 is a unit that extracts information to be provided to the user based on the sender route information and message information stored in the data storage unit 103, and is a data extraction unit in the present invention. Specific operations will be described later.

  The route information acquisition unit 105 is a unit for acquiring a route along which the user is moving, and is a route information acquisition unit in the present invention. The route information acquisition unit acquires route information to a set destination and a destination from a navigation device mounted on the vehicle or a device having a route guidance function such as a portable terminal.

The input / output unit 106 is a unit that provides the user with the information extracted by the data extraction unit 104, and is a data presentation unit in the present invention. For example, the input / output unit 106 transmits information to be displayed to a display device mounted on the vehicle, and provides the information to the user through the screen.
The input / output unit 106 also has a function of accepting input from the user. When receiving an input, the input is received from a vehicle-mounted touch panel or the like and transmitted to the data extraction unit 104. As a result, it is possible to instruct the data extraction unit to start processing, and to set the genre of data extracted by the data extraction unit.

<Message collection and storage>
Next, an operation for collecting data by the data collection unit 101 and an operation for the data classification unit 102 to classify the collected data and store the data in the data storage unit 103 will be described. The contents of the collected data will also be described.

  In this embodiment, the server 200 is a server that provides a social networking service (hereinafter referred to as SNS) connected to the Internet. SNS is a service for building a social network between users on the Internet. Users can share information between users by transmitting events that occur around them as so-called “tweets”. The information providing apparatus according to the present embodiment acquires information from the SNS and provides it to the user. Information posted by the user is accumulated in the server 200, and the data collection unit 101 periodically collects the data from the server 200.

  The format of data that the server 200 has and the data collection unit 101 collects will be described. FIG. 2A shows message information that the server 200 has in a table format. The message information includes fields of a message body (message text), a contributor ID, and a posting date / time. Moreover, it has the position information showing the position where the message was posted and the path ID showing the path that the information sender has moved when posting the information.

  The position information is information representing the position where the information sender has sent the information, and is represented by latitude and longitude. If the SNS to be used does not support location information, the information may be added to the message text.

  The route ID is an identifier uniquely representing a route that is assigned each time the information sender moves from the departure place to the destination.

FIG. 2B shows a route corresponding to the route ID “1” included in the message information of FIG. In this example, the route is represented as a set of waypoints. That is, the series of message information shown in FIG. 2 (a) is the information sent by the information sender on the “path to reach Lake Ashino via Chofu IC, Hachioji Tollgate, Otsuki JCT, Subashi IC, Gotemba IC”. It can be seen that it is.

  The message information and caller route information described above are held in association with each other by the server 200, and are collected periodically by the data collection unit 101. The collection target may be freely set. For example, only the remarks of a poster who has accepted the provision of information may be collected.

Note that the term route used in the present embodiment does not have to specify all traveling directions. For example, it may be a set of links representing a road on which it travels, or may be a set of points passing through. The route may be expressed in any way.
Further, the message information and the sender route information may be transmitted at the same time or may be transmitted separately. When using an existing service such as Twitter (registered trademark) and the caller route information cannot be held at the same time as the message information, the caller route information is described after the route ID is described in the message body. May be located on different servers.

  Next, an operation for classifying the collected data by the data classification unit 102 will be described. The data classification unit 102 performs keyword matching on the acquired message text, and associates the message information with a specific genre. FIG. 3 is a table showing the keywords to be detected and the corresponding information category (genre). For example, the message text “It has rained” is classified as weather information. In this example, the genre is classified by detecting a specific keyword from the entire message text. However, the keyword to be extracted may be determined by performing machine learning, or a part that is a feature of a sentence is extracted. In addition, keyword matching may be performed. The data classification unit 102 can be applied with existing technologies relating to natural language processing such as morphological analysis and syntax analysis.

  FIG. 4 shows message information after the information classification is given by the data classification unit 102. In the example of FIG. 4, each category of weather information, traffic information, and facility information is assigned to the message information. Message information corresponding to a plurality of categories is assigned to each category independently, but no message information is assigned to message information that does not correspond to any category.

  The operations described above are periodically performed by the data collection unit 101 and the data classification unit 102, and the collected data is recorded in the data storage unit 103. The stored data may be deleted at an arbitrary timing. For example, “weather information is deleted when 6 hours have passed since the information was transmitted” and “traffic information is deleted when 2 hours have elapsed since the information was transmitted”. In this way, the freshness of the information provided to the user can be maintained.

<Data extraction process>
Next, details of the process of extracting the message information recorded in the data storage unit 103 will be described with reference to FIG.

When the user performs an operation for requesting data acquisition through a touch panel or the like connected to the input / output unit 106, the data acquisition request is transmitted to the data extraction unit 104.
When receiving the data acquisition request, the data extraction unit 104 acquires route information from the route information acquisition unit 105 (S11). The route information is information about the route that the user is moving, which the navigation device connected to the route information acquisition unit 105 has. In the case of this example, it is a set of points that pass through to the destination. If the destination is not set, the user may be prompted to input the destination.

Next, the data extraction unit 104 extracts caller route information having the same destination from the data storage unit 103 (S12). Specifically, a set of caller route information having the same destination as the destination acquired in step S11 is acquired from the route information table.

Next, the obtained plurality of sender route information and the own route information obtained in step S11 are compared one by one, and the similarity between the routes is calculated (S13).
Here, an example of the calculation method of the similarity will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 illustrates an example of calculating the similarity between the route A from the departure point A to the destination C and the route B from the departure point B to the destination C with respect to the own route information illustrated by the dotted line. FIG.

  First, for each waypoint included in each acquired sender route information, a distance d to the closest point of the route is calculated. For example, it can be seen that the distance d between the point D, which is a transit point on the route A in FIG. 6, and the own route is 3 km. Thus, after the calculation process of the distance d is performed for all points, the average of the distance d is calculated, and the reciprocal is set as the similarity. According to this method, since the average of the distance d with respect to the route A is (3 + 3 + 2 + 1.5 + 1.5) ÷ 5 = 2.2 km, the similarity is about 0.45, and the average of the distance d with respect to the route B is (0 + 2 + 3 + 7 + 2) ÷. Since 5 = 2.8 km, the similarity is about 0.36.

In the above example, the case where a route is expressed by a set of waypoints (nodes) has been described. However, when a route is expressed by a set of roads (links) that travel, the total distance traveled on the same link is calculated as It is good also as similarity. When this method is used, the similarity increases as the distance traveled on the same road increases. FIG. 7 shows an example in which the similarity of the route is determined based on the road on which the vehicle is traveling. In the example of FIG. 7, the total distance traveled along the route A is 5 km and the total distance traveled along the route B is 4 km. Therefore, the similarity of the longitude A is 5, and the similarity of the route B is 4 can be used.
As described above, the similarity between routes is a value that indicates how common the elements constituting the route such as the waypoints and roads that each route has, and is calculated based on the distance. be able to. Note that any method may be used for calculating the degree of similarity as long as the degree of similarity between the two routes can be expressed numerically. In addition, when the route information on the way cannot be acquired, the similarity may be determined based on only the position of the destination.

  The process of step S13 is performed for all caller route information having the same destination. In step S14, all routes whose similarity exceeds the threshold are extracted, and message information corresponding to the sender route information is extracted. In this embodiment, the route to be used is determined by comparing the calculated similarity with a threshold value. However, the route to be used may be selected in descending order of similarity without using the threshold value.

  Next, information on the genre desired by the user is further extracted from the plurality of extracted message information (S15). Genre information desired by the user is selected by a touch panel or the like connected to the input / output unit 106 and stored in the data extraction unit 104. For example, selection corresponding to the genre classification performed by the data classification unit 102 such as “weather information”, “traffic information”, and “facility information” is made. Finally, the extracted message information is provided to the user through the input / output unit 106, the display or the like (S16).

In the first embodiment, the degree of similarity between the movement path of the information sender and the movement path of the user is determined, and only the message corresponding to the movement path having a certain degree of similarity is provided to the user. By doing in this way, since the information which the person who is moving with the same purpose transmitted can be provided to a user, more useful information can be provided.
In addition, it is possible to refer to information regarding the destination or a point to pass through without approaching the vicinity of the destination.

  In the present embodiment, an example is given in which position information is added to message information. However, adding position information is not an essential requirement for configuring the invention. Further, when the position information is not added to the message information, the position where the information is transmitted may be estimated by analyzing the content of the message text, and the position information (latitude / longitude) to be stored may be generated. For example, “Jasmine: a real-time local-event detection system based on geolocation information propagated to microblogs”, Kazufumi Watanabe, Masanao Ochi, Makoto Okabe, Rikio Onai, Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (CIKM'11), 2011.10.24 ".

  Further, in the present embodiment, caller route information corresponding to message information is unconditionally acquired from the server 200 and stored in the data storage unit 103. However, data is directly acquired from the server 200 and is transmitted via the data storage unit. The data extraction may be performed without using it. Similarly, the data classification unit 102 is not an essential component. Even if the data is not classified by genre, it is possible to achieve the object of the invention of providing information transmitted by a user who travels along a similar route.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the form in which information is provided in response to a user request has been described. However, a condition (desired genre or information provision condition) is set in advance for the data extraction unit 104, and based on the set condition. Information may be provided automatically. The condition may be, for example, “Provide traffic information every 15 minutes” or “Provide traffic information while driving on a highway, and provide nearby facility information after leaving the highway” Or the like.

(Second embodiment)
The second embodiment has a configuration in which a function for transmitting information to the server 200 is added to the information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment. The same means as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted. The operations other than the steps described below are the same as those in the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a system configuration diagram of the information providing apparatus according to the second embodiment.
The information input unit 110 is a means for receiving input of information from the user. For example, it is a receiving unit for receiving text messages input by a portable terminal by short-range wireless communication. The current position acquisition unit 111 is a means for acquiring the current position of the information providing apparatus. A signal is acquired from a connected GPS device (not shown), and the current position is determined.
The data transmission unit 112 is means for transmitting input data to the server 200 via a network. The information input by the information input unit 110, the current position acquired by the current position acquisition unit 111, and the route information acquired by the route information acquisition unit 105 are transmitted to the server 200.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a transmission process performed by the data transmission unit 112.
When the user completes input of the text message to the information input unit 110, a data transmission request is transmitted to the data transmission unit 112. Receiving the data transmission request, the data transmission unit 112 acquires the current position of the information providing apparatus from the current position acquisition unit 111 (S21). Further, route information to the destination is obtained from the route information obtaining unit 105 (S22). At this time, when the route ID corresponding to the acquired route information has not been generated, a route ID is generated.

  Subsequently, a message ID is generated by adding a route ID and current position information corresponding to the acquired route information to the input text message, and sender route information is generated from the route information corresponding to the route ID ( S23). Then, the generated message information and caller route information are transmitted to the server 200 (S24).

  If the server 200 does not support reception of caller route information, only compatible information may be transmitted, and incompatible information may be transmitted to another server. Further, the route ID and the current position information may be transmitted as a part of the text message. Further, when the sender route information to be transmitted is the same as the route transmitted previously, the transmission may be omitted.

  According to the second embodiment, an information providing apparatus having a function of transmitting information to the server 200 can be provided. Since the route information of the information sender is added to the provided information, it can be acquired by the information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment. Further, since the position where the information is transmitted is transmitted at the same time, the user who receives the information can obtain accurate information.

  In this embodiment, the position where the information is transmitted is transmitted at the same time, but the acquisition and transmission of the current position may be omitted. Even if the current position of the information sender is not added, the object of the invention can be achieved.

(Third embodiment)
In the third embodiment, the current position of the user is compared with the position where the information is transmitted, and the provision of useless information to the user is suppressed. The same means as those of the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals and description thereof is omitted. The operations other than the steps described below are the same as in the first embodiment.

  FIG. 10 is a system configuration diagram of an information providing apparatus according to the third embodiment. The current position acquisition unit 111 is a means for acquiring the current position of the information providing apparatus. A signal is acquired from a connected GPS device (not shown), and the current position is determined.

  The information providing apparatus according to the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. A solid line is a movement route of the information sender, and a dotted line is a movement route of the user. It is assumed that the information sender sends information a total of four times along the route. When there is such information and it is determined that the route A and the route B are similar, the information providing apparatus according to the first embodiment provides four types of message information to the user.

  However, when the current position of the user is a place illustrated by a white circle, even if the information 1 and the information 2 transmitted in the area that has already passed are provided, the user cannot use the information. Conversely, it is desirable to provide information 3 and information 4 transmitted in an area where there is a possibility of stopping. In the third embodiment, as described above, necessary information and unnecessary information are selected from the information to be provided, and only information that is considered useful is provided to the user.

  In the third embodiment, after narrowing down the genre in the process of step S15, a process of excluding information transmitted in an already passed area is performed. Specifically, the data extraction unit 104 acquires current position information from the current position acquisition unit 111, and acquires a point closest to the current position among the positions to which the message information is transmitted. Then, the message information having a time stamp older than the message information transmitted at the point is determined not to be useful and information is not provided.

By doing in this way, the user can acquire only information transmitted at a point where there is a possibility that he / she may stop from now on, so it is possible to suppress provision of useless information and improve convenience Can do. Note that this process may be performed as long as it is possible to determine whether or not to provide information by comparing the position where the information is transmitted and the current position of the user. For example, while traveling on an expressway, facility information transmitted on a nearby general road may not be provided.

(Modification)
The description of each embodiment is an exemplification for explaining the present invention, and the present invention can be appropriately modified or combined in a range not departing from the gist of the invention. For example, in the description of the embodiment, text information is treated as data provided to the user, but image data other than text, audio data, moving image data, or the like may be used. Any form can be used as long as data can be stored and provided by appropriate means.

  In addition, the data extraction unit 104 may further sort the message information using conditions other than the exemplified conditions. For example, a condition such as “does not provide information transmitted at a distance of 5 km or more from one's route” may be added, or “provide facility information only when the word“ discount ”is included”. Such a condition may be further added.

  Further, the server 200 may not be a server that provides SNS as long as the data described in FIG. 2 can be stored and distributed. For example, it may be a Web server or a server that manages an electronic bulletin board.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information provision apparatus 101 Data collection part 102 Data classification part 103 Data storage part 104 Data extraction part 105 Path | route information acquisition part 106 Input / output part 110 Information input part 111 Current position acquisition part 112 Data transmission part 200 Server

Claims (10)

The provided data and the first route information from a server that stores the provided data that is the data provided to the user and the first route information that is the information including the movement route of the sender of the provided data in association with each other. And providing the provided data to a moving user,
Route information acquisition means for acquiring second route information including a route on which the user is moving;
Data for extracting provided data having a degree of similarity equal to or greater than a predetermined value with respect to the second route information obtained by the route information obtaining unit in the corresponding route information obtained by the server. Acquisition means;
Data presenting means for presenting the acquired provided data to the user;
An information providing apparatus. The data acquisition means includes
Data collection means for obtaining the provided data and first route information from the server;
Data storage means for storing the obtained provision data and first route information;
Data extraction means for extracting provided data from the data storage means corresponding to the first route information corresponding to the second route information having a similarity equal to or higher than a predetermined value;
The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, comprising: The data collection means classifies the provided data for each genre according to the content of the provided data,
The data storage means stores the provided data in association with the classified genre,
The information providing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data extracting unit further extracts the provided data corresponding to a genre designated by the user. The provided data is text data,
The data collection means creates position information representing the position where the information is transmitted from the content of the provided data,
The information providing apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the data storage unit stores the provided data together with the created position information. It further has a current position acquisition means for acquiring the current position,
5. The information according to claim 4, wherein the data extraction unit extracts the provision data by further considering a result of comparing the acquired current position with the position information stored together with the provision data. Providing device. A data input means for accepting input of provided data from a user;
Data transmission means for transmitting the input provided data and the route information acquired by the route information acquisition means to the server;
The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: A current position acquisition means for acquiring a position when the user inputs provided data;
The information providing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the data transmitting unit transmits the acquired current position together with the input provided data and route information. The information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the server is a server that provides a social networking service. The provided data and the first route information from a server that stores the provided data that is the data to be provided to the user and the first route information that is the information about the travel route of the sender of the provided data in association with each other. The information providing method performed by the information providing apparatus for obtaining the provision data to the moving user,
Obtaining second route information that is information about the route the user is moving;
Extracting provided data having corresponding degree of similarity between the first route information corresponding to the second route information and a predetermined value or more from the provided data held by the server;
Presenting the acquired provided data to the user;
An information providing method characterized by including: The provided data and the first route information from a server that stores the provided data that is the data to be provided to the user and the first route information that is the information about the travel route of the sender of the provided data in association with each other. To the information providing device that provides the provided data to the moving user,
Obtaining second route information that is information about the route the user is moving;
Extracting provided data having corresponding degree of similarity between the first route information corresponding to the second route information and a predetermined value or more from the provided data held by the server;
Presenting the acquired provided data to the user;
An information providing program characterized by causing

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