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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2020
Here Global B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Anirudh Viswanathan, Berkeley, CA (US);
HERE GLOBAL B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for establishing the reliability of crowd sourced data based on the source of the data and the region in which the data is gathered. Methods may include: receiving map data for a network of roads in a geographic area; receiving location accuracy data from different regions within the geographic area, where the location accuracy data for each region may be indicative of an accuracy with which location can be established in the respective region; receiving a plurality of probe data points; determining, for each probe data point, the location accuracy data associated with the location information associated with the respective probe apparatus; determining, for each probe apparatus, a reliability of the one or more sensors; and updating a map database based on at least one probe data point.