KR20050077643A - The geographic information providing system based on a platform and method of providing geographic information - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a geographic information providing system and a geographic information service providing method that can provide a customized geographic information service suitable for a user's purpose and preference.

The geographic information providing system according to the present invention includes a database unit, a layer manager, a service function manager, and a geographic information service provider. The database unit stores map data configured to record corresponding map information in a plurality of layers, and attribute data related to the map data. The layer manager manages layers so that they can be selected or deselected by the user, and stores layer information which is information about selection or non-selection by the user in a database. The service function management unit manages service functions for displaying geographic information so that the user can be selected or deselected by the user, and stores the service function information which is information about selection or non-selection by the user in a database. The geographic information service provider provides a user with a customized geographic information service extracted from a database based on user data.

Description

The geographic information providing system based on a platform and method of providing geographic information}

The present invention relates to an application service providing system based on a platform, and more particularly, to a geographic information providing system providing a geographic information service for handling a map and related attribute information based on a platform.

Rather than having expensive servers and software to develop various Internet businesses in response to the recent wired and wireless Internet environment, application service providers (hereinafter referred to as ASPs) that rent and use necessary equipment and solutions are required. It is spreading.

Here, the ASP receives a platform from the platform operator and prepares an application service such as a beauty salon management service or a car center management service on the platform to provide the application service to the service user.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an entire platform system for an ASP based on a platform.

The platform system 100 according to the present invention includes a user management server 110, an AD server 120, a provisioning server 130, a charging server 140, and a service providing system 150.

When the ASP 10 connects to the user management server 110 through a web or a phone and requests a subscription for an ASP service, the user management server 110 checks the real name of the received subscription. Do this.

When the real name verification is completed, the user management server 110 registers the user to the AD server 120 and requests the provisioning server 130 to allocate the platform for providing the application service. The provisioning server 130 allocates a platform according to the subscription and prepares the ASP 10 to build a service providing system 150 on the platform.

When the construction of the service providing system 150 is completed by the ASP 10, the service user 20 may access the service providing system 150 through the Internet and receive an application service provided by the ASP 10. do.

At this time, the access authority of the service user 20 is stored in the AD server 120 by the ASP 10, the service providing system 150 determines whether to allow the connection through the AD server 120, the service user 20 Service).

Among the application services provided through such an ASP system, for example, geographic information service that provides geographic information includes problems such as map construction cost, construction period and maintenance, and expensive equipment and S / S for storing and high-speed processing of large-scale map data. W have problems with purchasing. Therefore, it is difficult for SMEs and self-employed people to build and operate the geographic information system based on the platform.

Therefore, despite the trend of increasing demand for geographic information services, general ASPs cannot operate geographic information services on a platform basis, and therefore, the lease of a platform for geographic information services cannot be performed smoothly for many ASPs.

In order to solve such a problem, a platform operator or a specific ASP may build a geographic information providing system that can provide geographic information services, and the ASPs providing the geographic information providing system to general operators or other application services. The lease method is used to rent a geographic information provision system (hereinafter referred to as a user).

However, operators or ASPs, i.e., users may have different uses of GIS. Therefore, in order to match the various preferences of the operators, the GIS lease method needs to make a new version of GIS reflecting the requirements of all users and reflecting them before renting the service.

In addition, some operators create unique geographic information (eg, location information of branches, branches, customers, customers, employees, vehicles, etc.) to manage customers, locate salespeople, track vehicle movements, and track cargo delivery. You may want to use it.

Therefore, leasing operators of geographic information provision system have a problem that the profitability of lease is not only low, but also limited to satisfy various service needs of each service provider, and user satisfaction is low.

An object of the present invention is to provide a geographic information providing system that provides a customized geographic information service suitable for a user's purpose and preference.

Another technical problem of the present invention is to provide a geographic information service providing method for providing a customized geographic information service suitable for a user's purpose and preference.

Another technical problem of the present invention is to provide a platform system including a system for providing customized geographic information based on a platform.

A geographic information providing system according to an aspect of the present invention is a geographic information providing system for providing geographic information to a user based on a platform.

A map unit configured to respectively record corresponding map information in a plurality of layers, and a database unit for storing attribute data related to the map data;

A layer manager configured to manage the layers to be selected or deselected by a user and to store layer information, which is information about selection or non-selection, by the user in the database;

A service function management unit for managing service functions for displaying geographic information so as to be selected or deselected by a user, and storing service function information which is information about selection or non-selection by a user in the database; And

And a geographic information service providing unit for providing a user with a customized geographic information service extracted from the database based on the user data.

The layer manager may include a layer list unit for displaying a list of each layer including corresponding geographic information; A layer selection unit capable of displaying a selection or no selection of the layer list unit; And a first change storage interface for storing the newly configured layer information in the database unit.

The service function management unit may include a service function list unit showing a full list of service functions; A function selection unit for selecting and executing each service function; And a second change storage interface for storing the newly configured service function information in the database unit.

The method may further include a shape management unit for versioning and managing the history of the layer information changed by the layer manager and the service function information changed by the service function manager, and storing the generated version information in the database.

The shape management unit stores and manages version information of changed layer information and service function information so that each version information of layer information and service function information is inquired by a user and a new version can be generated by a combination of versions. do.

The layer manager may include a layer list unit for displaying a list of each layer including corresponding geographic information; A layer selection unit capable of displaying a selection or no selection of the layer list unit; A first change storage interface for storing newly constructed layer information in the database unit; And a first shape management interface for transmitting and receiving layer information to and from the shape management unit in order to historyize and manage the changed layer information.

The service function management unit may include a service function list unit showing a full list of service functions; A function selection unit for selecting and executing each service function; A second change storage interface for storing newly constructed service function information in the database unit; And a second shape management interface for transmitting and receiving service function information to and from the configuration manager in order to historyize and manage the changed service function information.

The geographic information service providing unit may further include a layer generator that generates a user-specific layer for storing current location information based on a user's connection request and a current location information storage request using a mobile terminal.

And a location information collection unit for collecting the current location information of the user to be recorded in the user-specific layer and attribute information related thereto at the request of the geographic information service provider, wherein the information collected by the location information collection unit is stored in the database unit. It may further include an integrated location-based server for storing.

The location information collecting unit may collect information through a LBS (Location Based System) of the mobile communication company to which the user's mobile terminal belongs.

A method for providing a geographic information service according to another aspect of the present invention is a method for providing a geographic information service for a user who accesses the geographic information providing system described above.

a) extracting service function information stored in the database unit;

b) extracting layer information stored in the database unit;

c) executing a selection or non-selection of service functions or layers according to a user's selection to change service function information or layer information and to store the changed information in the database; And

d) providing the geographic information stored in the database unit as a geographic information service according to the service function information and the layer information selected by the user.

After step c), the method may further include versioning and storing the changed history of the service function information and the layer information in the database.

In addition, the user using a mobile terminal accessing the geographic information providing system requesting the storage of the current location information;

Generating or selecting a user-unique layer for storing current location information;

Collecting current location information and related attribute information to be recorded in the user-specific layer as user-specific geographic information; And

The method may further include storing collected user-specific geographic information in the database unit.

Among the user's own geographic information, map information may be stored in combination with map data of the database unit, and attribute information may be stored in combination with attribute data of the database unit.

Platform system according to another aspect of the present invention, a platform system for providing an application service to the user based on the platform,

A geographic information providing system described above, comprising: a geographic information providing system provided on the platform for providing map information and attribute information related to the map information;

A user manager for receiving and managing subscriptions to the geographic information providing system;

A provisioning unit for executing a user setting for enabling the user to use the geographic information providing system based on the subscription received in the user management unit;

An AD (Active Directory) unit for granting a use right of the geographic information providing system based on the subscription received from the user management unit and the usage setting of the provisioning unit, and performing use authentication for a user who has requested access; And

And a charging unit configured to charge a user fee for using the geographic information providing system based on the use setting of the provisioning unit.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention. Like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the specification.

In addition, in the following, a user is referred to as a main user who is an ASP that provides general service or application services registered for the lease of a geographic information providing system, and a subordinate that is subordinated to the main users to receive the geographic information service. The concept involves users. Therefore, unless specifically mentioned below, the main user and subordinate users are collectively referred to as a user.

First, FIG. 2 is a view schematically showing the configuration of a geographic information providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Geographic information providing system 200 according to the present invention, the database unit 210, geographic information service providing unit 220, layer management unit 230, service function management unit 240, configuration management unit 250 and integrated location based Server 260.

The database unit 210 includes a map DB 211 in which map information is stored, an attribute DB 212 in which attributes related to a map are stored, a location DB 213 in which current location information transmitted from a mobile terminal is stored, and a user is changed. And a user DB 214 for storing service function information and layer information.

The layer manager 230 provides a user with an entire layer list and a layer selector so as to select or deselect necessary layers from the entire list of layers including the corresponding geographic information. In addition, the layer manager 230 stores and manages layer information newly changed by the user in the user DB 214.

The service function management unit 240 includes service functions for displaying geographic information (for example, map movement, enlargement, reduction, distance calculation, area calculation, attribute information display, etc., in addition to sales personnel, vehicles, cargo, etc.). The list of service functions to the user to select or release the necessary service functions from the list of tracking target registration and current location, operation route tracking, delivery status, and geographic information based statistics). Provide a function selector. In addition, the service function information newly changed for each user is stored and managed in the user DB (214).

The configuration manager 250 is connected to the layer manager 230 and the service function manager 240 to manage the version of the changed layer information and the history of the changed service function information by versioning and managing the version information. Stored in the DB (214). Therefore, by using the shape management unit 250, the user can look up the layer information and service function information of each version to combine each version to create a new version or return to the previous version.

The integrated location based server 260 includes a location information collecting unit 261 that receives the current location information of the user's mobile terminal through a location based system server (hereinafter referred to as LBS) 30 of a mobile communication company. The location information collected by the location information collecting unit 261 is accumulated and stored in the location DB 213.

The geographic information service providing unit 220 extracts the service function information and the layer information for each user and provides a customized geographic information service through a network such as the Internet. 214).

In addition, the geographic information service provider 220 includes a layer generator 221 for receiving location information unique to the user from the location DB 213 to generate a location information layer. The layer generated by the layer generator 221 stores corresponding information in the user DB 214, the map DB 211, and the attribute DB 212, respectively.

Next, the geographic information service provider 220, the layer manager 230, the service function manager 240, and the shape manager 250 will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a view showing in detail the configuration of the geographic information service provider 220, the layer manager 230, the service function manager 240 and the configuration manager 250.

The geographic information service providing unit 220 includes a geographic information unit 221 for outputting geographic information and location information, a function menu unit 222 composed of various basic functions and additional functions of the geographic information service, and the geographic information unit 221. Service function that can be changed to the user service to configure a variety of service functions constituting the layer management interface 223 for driving the layer management unit 230, and the function menu unit 222 that can change the geographic information output to the user And a service function management interface 224 for driving the manager 240.

The layer manager 230 selects (T: True) or cancels (F: layer output) each of the layer list 231 for displaying the layers L1, L2, ... Ln-1, Ln including the corresponding geographic information. : False) a layer selector 232 for generating variable arrays (T1, T2, ... Tn-1, Tn), a change storage interface 233 for transmitting a command to store newly configured layer information for each user, and It includes a configuration management interface 234 for driving the configuration management unit 250 in order to history and manage the change information.

The service function management unit 240 is a function list 241 for displaying a complete list of service functions F1, F2, ... Fn-1, Fn to configure a user-defined geographic information service, so that each service function can be selected. Execution variable by function and its corresponding values (S1 ∋ S11 ~ S1m, S2 ∋ S21 ~ S2m… S (n-1) ∋ S (n-1) 1 ~ S (n-1) m, Sn ∋ Sn1 ~ Snm) A function selector 242 to generate, a change storage interface 243 for transmitting a command for storing service function information newly configured for each user, and a configuration manager for driving the configuration manager 250 to manage such change information by history; Interface 244.

Here, the service functions (F1, F2, ... Fn-1, Fn) are in addition to basic service functions such as map movement, enlargement, reduction, distance calculation, area calculation, attribute information inquiry, etc. ), And may include various additional functions such as tracking current location, tracking operation route, tracking delivery status, and geographic information based statistics.

For example, if the function F1 is 'Move Map', S11 ~ S14 may be disabled, moved by mouse, moved to an icon, moved to a menu bar, and a value selected by the user is assigned to S1 (or code). Is stored in the user DB 214).

The configuration management unit 250 includes a layer version list 251 and a function version list 253 showing the version of the user-customized geographic information service function and the geographic information layer information, and the user who views the configuration information of each version It includes a version selector 252 for combining the version of each list to create a version of the geographic information service, or to version management such as returning to the previous version. In addition, the configuration management unit 250 includes a change storage interface 254 for transmitting a command for storing the newly configured service version information, and a basic version restoration interface 255 for transmitting a command for restoring to the initial version of the service before the user-specific version change. It includes. Here, the new service version generated by the combination of the service function and each version of the layer is managed in an array (LV1FV1, LV1FV2, ... LVnFVm-1, LVnFVm).

Next, an operation of the geographic information providing system 200 according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a customized geographic information service in the geographic information providing system 200 according to the present invention.

The user logs in to the geographic information providing system by inputting an ID and password registered for using the geographic information providing system (S210).

Geographic information service provider 220 receives the user authentication from the AD server (120 of FIG. 1) (S215). Here, the user authority may be separately set for each user on the AD server 120 based on the subscription request for the geographic information providing system, and during the authentication process, the user authority of the geographic information providing system may be checked and within the allowed permission. You can use the system.

If the user is assigned the use authority of the geographic information service to extract the user-specific service function information stored in the user DB (214) to configure the geographic information service for each user (S220).

Next, after extracting user-specific map data from the map DB 211 and the attribute DB 212 using previously stored user-specific layer information from the user DB 214, and fused with the basic service function and the basic map data, respectively, The geographic information service providing unit 220 outputs the geographic information unit 221 and the function menu unit 222 (S230).

The user may change the service function configuration by adding / updating / deleting basic or previously stored geographic information service functions using the service function manager 240.

The geographic information service provider 220 determines whether there is a configuration change of the service function by the user through the service function manager 240 (S235).

If there is a configuration change, the geographic information service provider 220 changes the service function configuration information by adding / update / delete the geographic information service functions stored in the user DB 214 based on the configuration change information input by the user. (S240).

Next, when the service function configuration change is completed or there is no configuration change by the user, the geographic information service provider 220 determines whether there is a change in the layer configuration information by the user through the layer manager 230 (S245). ).

If there is a change in the layer configuration, the geographic information service provider 220 based on the information that the user adds / updated / deleted the user's own geographic information layer using the layer manager 230, the user DB ( In operation 214, the layer configuration may be changed (S250).

Both the service function information and the layer information changed in steps S240 and S250 may be versioned and stored in the user DB 214 (S255).

The user may manage the geographic information service configuration information that is historyd as described above using the shape management unit 250 (S260). In this way, the service configuration previously configured can be reused at any time.

In this way, a user-specific service function configuration and a geographic information layer can be configured according to a user's use and preference, and the changed shapes are managed by history, so that the user can effectively use geographic information for sales and customer management.

In addition, since differentiated services can be provided for each user, an operator of a geographic information providing system can increase user satisfaction and facilitate various e-business deployments.

Next, a method of generating a user layer by collecting user's unique location data through the integrated location-based server 260 will be described.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of collecting a user's unique location data through the integrated location-based server 260 in the geographic information service provider 220 to generate a user layer.

First, the user requests a URL connection to the layer generator 221 of the geographic information service provider 220 through a wireless network, a wireless gateway, and the Internet with a mobile terminal (S310). Here, the mobile terminal includes a GPS-equipped mobile phone, PDA, notebook.

When the user authentication for the service is made with the access request information (S315), an application for generating a user's own geographic information layer is downloaded to the user terminal (S320).

Thereafter, the application is directly connected to the geographic information service provider 220 by driving the application, and even if the version of the application is updated, a new version of the application is automatically downloaded. The application stores a user-generated list of unique geospatial layers, and includes a function of transmitting a layer name or a newly input layer name.

The user transmits the selected layer name or the newly input layer name to the geographic information service provider 220 using the application (S323).

Next, information about the layer selected or newly input by the user is transmitted to the layer generator 221, and the layer generator 221 generates the selected or input layer and transmits the generated layer information to the user's mobile terminal. (S325).

On the other hand, if a user-specific layer has already been created, new location data can be added by selecting a corresponding layer.

The user inputs attribute information (account name, telephone number, etc.) to add new position data to the generated layer, and requests the layer generator 221 to store the current position together with the attribute information (S330).

Next, the layer generation unit 221 requests the current location information on the unique number of the terminal to the location information collecting unit 261 in the integrated location-based server 260 (S340).

Next, when the location information collector 261 requests location information from the LBS 30 of the mobile communication company (S345), the LBS 30 tracks current location information of the user terminal through the wireless network (S350). The mobile terminal of the user transmits the location information to the LBS in response to the location information tracking of the LBS (S355).

The LBS transmits the received location information to the location information collecting unit 261 of the integrated location based server 260, and the location information collecting unit 261 stores the location information received by the location DB 214 (S360). .

After the location information is stored in the location DB 214, the location information is transmitted to the layer generator 221 to be stored in the map DB 211 and the property DB 212 as additional location data of the user's own geographic information layer. (S365).

The layer generator 221 notifies the user terminal that the storage of the additional location data is completed, and the user releases the connection (S370).

If the user has already disconnected before the completion of storage notification, the user may use the SMS to notify the completion of storing the location information. (To reduce the wireless Internet access time, the user may request to save the location information and immediately perform the disconnection.) .

In this way, even users who are unfamiliar with advanced operation functions of the geographic information service can create a user's own layer only by operating a mobile terminal.

Although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various other changes and modifications are possible.

The present invention relates to a geographic information service leasing and management system that minimizes the cost and effort required for specialized knowledge, equipment, and operation of the geographic information system. have.

It is possible to compose user service function and geographic information layer according to user's purpose and preference, so that users can effectively use geographic information for sales and customer management, and provide differentiated service for each user to improve user satisfaction and various Facilitate the e-business deployment

In addition, even users who are unfamiliar with advanced operation functions of the geographic information service can create a user's own layer and store geographic information of the current location only by operating a mobile terminal.

In addition, it is possible to manage the access rights for each function of the geographic information service in the AD server, so that various rates can be applied to each user, thereby providing economical and reasonable service for the user's purpose.

1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of an entire platform system for an ASP based on a platform.

2 is a view schematically showing the configuration of a geographic information providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a view showing in detail the configuration of the geographic information service provider 220, the layer manager 230, the service function manager 240 and the configuration manager 250.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a customized geographic information service in the geographic information providing system 200 according to the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of collecting a user's unique location data through the integrated location-based server 260 in the geographic information service provider 220 to generate a user layer.

Claims (15)

In the geographic information providing system for providing geographic information to the user based on the platform, A map unit configured to respectively record corresponding map information in a plurality of layers, and a database unit for storing attribute data related to the map data; A layer manager configured to manage the layers to be selected or deselected by a user and to store layer information, which is information about selection or non-selection, by the user in the database; A service function management unit for managing service functions for displaying geographic information so as to be selected or deselected by a user, and storing service function information which is information about selection or non-selection by a user in the database; And Geographic information service providing unit for providing a user with a customized geographic information service extracted from the database based on the user data Geographic information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 1, The layer management unit, A layer list unit showing a list of each layer including corresponding geographic information; A layer selection unit capable of displaying a selection or no selection of the layer list unit; And First change storage interface for storing newly configured layer information in the database unit Geographic information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 1, The service function management unit, A service function list unit showing a full list of service functions; A function selection unit for selecting and executing each service function; And Second change storage interface for storing newly configured service function information in the database unit Geographic information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 1, A shape management unit for versioning and managing the history of the layer information changed in the layer management unit and the service function information changed in the service function management unit, and stores the generated version information in the database. Geographic information providing system further comprising. The method of claim 4, wherein The shape management unit is a geographic information providing system that allows the user to inquire each version of the layer information and service function information, a new version can be generated by the combination of the versions. The method of claim 4, wherein The layer management unit, A layer list unit showing a list of each layer including corresponding geographic information; A layer selection unit capable of displaying a selection or no selection of the layer list unit; A first change storage interface for storing newly constructed layer information in the database unit; And A first shape management interface for transmitting and receiving layer information to and from the shape management unit in order to historyize and manage the changed layer information Geographic information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 4, wherein The service function management unit. A service function list unit showing a full list of service functions; A function selection unit for selecting and executing each service function; A second change storage interface for storing newly constructed service function information in the database unit; And A second shape management interface for transmitting and receiving service function information to and from the configuration manager in order to historyize and manage the changed service function information; Geographic information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 1, The geographic information service provider, Layer generation unit for generating a user-specific layer for storing the current location information based on the user's connection request and the current location information storage request using the mobile terminal Geographic information providing system further comprising. The method of claim 8, And a location information collection unit for collecting the current location information of the user to be recorded in the user-specific layer and attribute information related thereto at the request of the geographic information service provider, wherein the information collected by the location information collection unit is stored in the database unit. Integrated location-based server to store Geographic information providing system further comprising. The method of claim 9, And the location information collecting unit collects information through a LBS (Location Based System) of a mobile communication company to which the user's mobile terminal belongs. In the geographic information service providing method for providing a geographic information service to a user connected to the geographic information providing system according to claim 1, a) extracting service function information stored in the database unit; b) extracting layer information stored in the database unit; c) executing a selection or non-selection of service functions or layers according to a user's selection to change service function information or layer information and to store the changed information in the database; And d) providing geographic information stored in the database unit as a geographic information service according to the service function information and layer information selected by the user; Geographic information service providing method comprising a. The method of claim 11, After step c), And versioning the history of the changed service function information and the layer information in the database. The method of claim 11, Requesting a user of a mobile terminal to access the geographic information providing system to store current location information; Generating or selecting a user-unique layer for storing current location information; Collecting current location information and related attribute information to be recorded in the user-specific layer as user-specific geographic information; And Storing the collected user's unique geographic information in the database unit Geographic information service providing method further comprising. The method of claim 13, Map information of the user-specific geographic information is stored in conjunction with the map data of the database unit, the attribute information is stored in combination with the attribute data of the database unit. In the platform system to provide application services to users based on the platform, A geographic information providing system according to claim 1, comprising: a geographic information providing system provided on the platform for providing map information and attribute information related to the map information; A user manager for receiving and managing subscriptions to the geographic information providing system; A provisioning unit for executing a user setting for enabling the user to use the geographic information providing system based on the subscription received in the user management unit; An AD (Active Directory) unit for granting a use right of the geographic information providing system based on the subscription received from the user management unit and the usage setting of the provisioning unit, and performing use authentication for a user who has requested access; And A charging unit for charging a user a fee for using the geographic information providing system based on the use setting of the provisioning unit Platform system comprising a.