SPATIAL ADDRESS REGISTRY SYSTEM AND METHOD RELATED TO THIS

SYSTEM

The Related Art

The invention relates to a spatial address registry system and a method related to this system, which determines the geographical position of all the written addresses and enables geographicalization of the address database.

Background of the Invention

Nowadays, there are several different methods used to determine the geographical location of places and record thereof.

Each place has written address information sorted by a certain hierarchy. The hierarchy in this address information is as follows; The Earth

Continent

Country

City

District/T ownship

Village/Neighbourhood

Street/Road

Building

Independent An example of a written address information prepared with the given hierarchy is as follows: onu Neighbourhood, Akasya Road, No.: 9, Building: 1 1 , Sisli / ISTANBUL / TURKEY As can be seen in the written address information, the necessary information is available so that the location determination can be made for the place. However, there are some missing parts in some address information in written address databases registered in public institutions such as land registry and municipalities.

Some address information lacks street, some address information lacks building number, and some address information lacks district information. For this reason, places cannot be found properly. One of the methods used for detection of location is the applications using electronic maps. In these applications used on mobile phones, tablets, or computers, the name of the place desired to be reached is written down. The geographical location of the place, name of which is written down, previously marked on the map is presented to the user and also suggestions on how to go to the place from where he is found are provided.

However, it is not possible to achieve a sound result considering that the above said written addresses are used in the creation of said maps. After matching the geographical location of the relevant place with the written address information, it is seen that some of the address information are missing and some of the address information are wrong.

Or, on the contrary, it is seen that some geographical locations are not found or marked incorrectly with regard to the corresponding address information.

As a result of these, it is not possible to reach to the places without problem or even if reached, it wouldn't be on time.

Similarly, some buildings have entrances from two different streets/roads, and no information is available about which apartment is closer to which entrance, since the number of the building on either street or road is different.

For example, an ambulance that will make the first intervention to an emergency patient and take the patient to the nearest hospital will not be able to reach the apartment in time and lose time with the address information, since the location of the building not clear regarding in which street/road corresponding to the building is found. Similarly, in matters related to public order, entering from the wrong door in the sudden raids of law enforcement officers causes the accused to gain time and space to escape.

Also, in the said map applications, there are shifts up to 20 m in the geographical map created with the photos taken from the satellite, and it is not possible for a person who wants to reach the target place to determine this place at once.

In the PCT application No. WO 1999/066342 encountered in the literature, it is disclosed that: "the invention provides a mechanism and methods for high precision, short detection time and low power consumption location calculation. The location calculation mechanism includes a radio communications receiver that monitors a radio communications network, such as a cellular network covering the geographic region where it is located. The mechanism demodulates the signal received from the radio communication network and obtains the positioning data from the broadcast channel of the network for use in satellite determination operations before calculating a location. The mechanism further comprises a receiver for receiving positioning messages broadcasted by a group of GPS satellites. A position calculation circuit found on the mechanism uses the positioning data obtained from the radio communication network during the first time determination of one or more positioning satellites. When the desired number of positioning satellites are determined, the positioning messages are received from the specified positioning satellites and used in calculating the position of the location calculation mechanism."

Radio communication networks are used for location calculation in the given application.

Also in the literature, in the Patent Application No. TR 2012/151 19 registered to the Turkish Patent Institute, it is disclosed that "The invention relates to an automatic geographical coordinate information updating system in which the coordinate information of network equipments with critical geographical coordinate information is automatically checked and updated. The geographical coordinate information updating system according to the invention comprises at least one position determining unit for obtaining current geographical coordinate information by connecting to the network equipment whose location information is critical, at least one inquiry unit for obtaining current coordinate information from the coordinate information kept in the network itself or in various databases, at least one comparing unit for comparing the current and updated geographical coordinate information obtained by the location determining unit and inquiry unit to reveal incorrect coordinate information, at least one file generator for arranging the incorrect coordinate information found by the comparing unit, and at least one management unit that updates the incorrect coordinate information with the correct ones using the information received from the file generator." In the said application, an automatic geographical coordinate information updating system in which the coordinate information is automatically checked and updated.

Also in the literature, in the Patent Application No. TR 2015/12449 registered to the Turkish Patent Institute, the utility model discloses: A robotic system for marking location on map by means of a robot-shaped mechanism with a marker (laser, telescopic etc.) on its arm or arms such that a location entered into the system (input) (continent, region, ocean, sea, island, country, city, geographical coordinate, etc.) is marked on a scaled map, so that it can be used for education, cartography, entertainment, game, etc. purposes, and in general terms, it consists of: a mechanism with a robot appearance for marking locations (continent, region, ocean, sea, island, country, city, geographical coordinate, etc.) on any map introduced to the system; at least one laser pointer and/or telescopic bar and/or marker with a robot arm appearance; a body servo motor allowing the robot body to come to the required position for location marking operation on the map; an arm servo motor allowing the robot arm and thus the laser pointer and/or telescopic bar and/or marker to come to the required position for location marking operation on the map; a keyboard allowing map type, map scale, location to be marked, coordinate etc. data and commands to be entered into the system; data input and processing circuits allowing application of the data and commands entered into the system via the keyboard; electronic connections providing communication between the data input and processing circuits and the mechanism with robot appearance; and direction keys allowing the user to move the robot body and/or robot arms and thus the laser pointer and/or telescopic bar and/or marker without data input."

Said application is related to a robot embodiment for marking locations on maps.

As a result of the above given reasons, need has occurred for a novel spatial address registry system.

Description of the Invention

From the known status of the art, the purpose of the invention is to provide an spatial address registry system and a method related to this system which eliminates the prior art drawbacks.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide an address registry system which cancels out the margin of error. Another purpose of the invention is to provide a system which prevents deaths that occur because ambulances cannot reach the patient in time due to wrong or missing information.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide a system which prevents a criminal from escaping in time due to wrong or missing information.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide a system which allows updated and correct address information to be recorded in public institutions such as land registry and municipalities in both written form and as geographical location.

Description of the Figures

Figure 1 is a scheme showing the operation steps of the spatial address registry method according to the invention. Figure 2 is a schematic view of the spatial address registry system according to the invention.

Figure 3 is a scheme showing the operation steps of the referencing operation for non-referenced missing or erroneous address data by the field staff.

Figure 4 is a scheme showing the operation steps of forming an enriched spatial database.

Reference Numbers

1. Geographical Database

2. Database Related to the Written Address

3. Field staff

4. Mobile Device

5. Electronic Map Database

6. Geographicalized Spatial Database

7. Enriched Spatial Database

8. Missing or Erroneous Address Database

Reference Numbers of Operation Steps

100. Determining non-referenced missing or erroneous written address data by associating the written address-related database, in which all the addresses are processed, with a geographical database containing all the geographical map images,

1 10. Recording the determined missing or erroneous address data into the missing or erroneous address database,

120. Loading the data that does not have missing or erroneous address data into the geographicalized spatial database,

200. Referencing the missing or erroneous address data by means of associating the address data recorded in the missing or erroneous address database with the geographical location information recorded in the electronic map database containing satellite or orthophoto etc. maps, 210. Removing the referenced address data from missing or erroneous address database and adding thereof into the geographicalized spatial database,

300. Determining the non-referenced missing or erroneous address data on site by the field staff and referencing thereof via at least one mobile device, 310. The field staff goes to the geographical location of the address data found in the missing or erroneous address database,

320. The missing information of the relevant address such as street, road, building number etc. are determined by the field staff on the spot,

330. The field staff determines the first and last geographical data found on the street,

340. The field staff references first the first geographical data found on the street and then the last geographical data found at the end of the street such that he/she would give odd and even numbers to the right and left sides of said street,

400. Loading the address data into the geographicalized spatial database via the mobile device,

500. Forming the geographicalized spatial database that does not contain any missing or erroneous address data,

600. The enriched spatial database is formed after addition of the customized data of said place into the geographicalized spatial database,

610. Photos or videos of the relevant building are taken by the field staff via the mobile device,

61 1 . A photo or video of the whole building is taken from across the building,

612. A photo or video of the floor where said independent is found is taken,

613. A photo or video of said building is taken together with the neighbour building,

614. A photo or video of the area across the said building is taken such that the entrance door of the building would be left behind.

Detailed Description of the Invention

In this detailed description, the novelty according to the invention is only disclosed for better understanding of the subject without forming any limiting effect. The invention is a spatial address registry method, which determines the geographical position of all the written addresses and enables geographicalization of the address database, and it is characterized in that; it comprises the operation steps of: determining non-referenced missing or erroneous written address data by associating the written address-related database (2), in which all the addresses are processed, with a geographical database (1 ) containing all the geographical map images (100), recording the determined missing or erroneous address data into the missing or erroneous address database (8) (1 10), loading the data that does not have missing or erroneous address data into the geographicalized spatial database (6) (120), referencing the missing or erroneous address data by means of associating the address data recorded in the missing or erroneous address database (8) with the geographical location information recorded in the electronic map database (5) containing satellite or orthophoto etc. maps (200), removing the referenced address data from missing or erroneous address database (8) and adding thereof into the geographicalized spatial database (6) (210), determining the non- referenced missing or erroneous address data on site by the field staff (3) and referencing thereof via at least one mobile device (4) (300), loading said address data into the geographicalized spatial database (6) via the mobile device (4) (400), and forming the geographicalized spatial database (6) that does not contain any missing or erroneous address data (500).

The spatial address registry system, according to the invention comprises: written address-related database (2) in which all the written addresses are processed, geographical database (1 ) comprising all the geographical map images, missing or erroneous address database (8) in which the determined missing or erroneous addresses are recorded, electronic map database (5) comprising the satellite or orthophoto etc. maps, field staff (3) determining on site and referencing the non- referenced missing or erroneous address data via the at least one mobile device (4), geographicalized spatial database (6) that does not contain any missing or erroneous address data, and enriched spatial database (7) comprising information such as where the place is found on the street, to which street or road the door of the building faces, the direction of the building door with regard to the street or road, type of the building, whether the street where the building is found is a two-way or one-way street, in case the building has more than one entrances, which independent is related to which door, whether there is controlled entrance or not if the building is found within a building estate area, and in which categories are the independents found (house, office etc.).

The invention is a spatial address registry system, which determines the geographical position of all the written addresses and enables geographicalization of the address database, and it is characterized in that; it comprises: written address- related database (2) in which all the written addresses are processed, geographical database (1 ) comprising all the geographical map images, missing or erroneous address database (8) in which the determined missing or erroneous addresses are recorded, electronic map database (5) comprising the satellite or orthophoto etc. maps, field staff (3) determining on site and referencing the non-referenced missing or erroneous address data via the at least one mobile device (4), geographicalized spatial database (6) that does not contain any missing or erroneous address data. .

Figure 1 is a scheme showing the operation steps of the spatial address registry method according to the invention. Figure 2 is a schematic view of the spatial address registry system according to the invention.

Figure 3 is a scheme showing the operation steps of the referencing operation for non-referenced missing or erroneous address data by the field staff.

Figure 4 is a scheme showing the operation steps of forming an enriched spatial database.

In the said spatial address registry system and the method of said system, first of all; the operation of determining non-referenced missing or erroneous written address data by associating the written address-related database (2), in which all the addresses are processed, with a geographical database (1 ) containing all the geographical map images (100) is performed. Said operation (100) is preferably performed by marking the address information found in the written address-related database (1 ) in the maps found in the geographical database (1 ). This process, referred to as referencing, also checks the validity of the address data we have. The non-referenced missing or erroneous address data left in the written address-related database (2) following said operation (100) is transferred to the missing or erroneous address database (8) (1 10), and the referenced data are loaded to the geographicalized spatial database (6) (120).

The operation of referencing is made on the missing or erroneous address data by means of associating the missing or erroneous address data left in the missing or erroneous address database (8) with the geographical location information recorded in the electronic map database (5) containing satellite or orthophoto etc. maps (200). Said operation (200) is preferably performed by referencing the address information found in the missing or erroneous address database (8) in the maps found in the geographical database (1 ).

Following said operation (200), the operation of removing the referenced address data from missing or erroneous address database (8) and adding thereof into the geographicalized spatial database (6) is performed (210). In this way, much more verified address data is recorded in the geographicalized spatial database (6).

If there are still missing or erroneous address data in the missing or erroneous address database (8) following the operation of referencing the missing or erroneous address data by means of associating the address data with the geographical location information recorded in the electronic map database (5) containing satellite or orthophoto etc. maps (200), then the field staff (3) steps in.

Said field staff (3) determines on site and references the non-referenced missing or erroneous address data via a mobile device (4) (300). Said referencing operation (300) starts with the said field staff (3) going to the geographical location of the address data found in the missing or erroneous address database (8) (310). The missing information of the relevant address such as street, road, building number etc. are determined on the spot (320). In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the field staff (3), first of all, determines the first and last geographical data found on the street/road (330). The determination of said geographical data (330) is made so as to determine the data about buildings, lands, statues etc.

Afterwards, first the first geographical data found on the street/road and then the last geographical data found at the end of the street/road are referenced such that odd and even numbers are given to the right and left sides of said street/road (340). While said field staff (3) does the referencing operation, he/she decides on odd/even and ascending or descending numbering, and the mobile device (4) automatically continues from the starting point (odd or even, ascending or descending).

In this way, said field staff (3) is prevented from making an error.

Following said operation (300), all the missing or erroneous address data left in the missing or erroneous address database (8) are referenced by the field staff (3) via the mobile device (4), and said data are loaded to the geographicalized spatial database (6) through said mobile device (4) (400).

In this way, the geographicalized spatial database (6) that does not contain any missing or erroneous address data (500) is formed.

The enriched spatial database (7) is formed after addition of the customized data of said place into the geographicalized spatial database (6) (600).

Said customized data are the data containing information such as where the place is found on the street, to which street or road the door of the building faces, the direction of the building door with regard to the street or road, type of the building (wooden, concrete etc.), whether the street where the building is found is a two-way or one-way street, in case the building has more than one entrances, which independent is related to which door, whether there is controlled entrance or not if the building is found within a building estate area, and in which categories are the independents found (house, office etc.). Said enriched spatial database (7) also comprises said geographicalized spatial database (6), and photos and videos of the relevant building are taken by the field staff (3) via the mobile device (4) in order to obtain said customized data (610).

The said operation of taking photo or video (610) consists of taking a photo or video of the whole building from across the building (61 1 ), taking a photo or video of the floor where said independent is found (612), taking a photo or video of said building together with the neighbour building (613), and taking a photo or video of the area across the said building such that the entrance door of the building would be left behind (614).

In this way, said customized data are visually detected via photo or video and recorded in the enriched spatial database (7).

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, said mobile device (4) is a portable device comprising a compass or allowing use of an external compass, allowing wired or wireless connection with angle and distance measurement devices or has these characteristics, and can shoot images via a digital camera comprising a GPS module.

Since said mobile device (4) comprises a compass or can be connected to an external compass, said mobile device (4) can provide direction information with regard to street/road.

Since said mobile device (4) allow wired or wireless connection with angle and distance measurement devices, said mobile device (4) can provide the distance information to the street/road. Said geographicalized spatial database (6) and enriched spatial database (7) are updated according to hierarchy when a new structure is formed. Each new geographical information is added to said geographicalized spatial database (6) and enriched spatial database (7) via said mobile device (4).