ENHANCED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF SPATIALLY ASSOCIATED INFORMATION

摘要

Numerous embodiments exemplarily described herein offer a solution to the problem of overcrowding of spatially associated information by providing geo-demographic tags as a means of targeting spatially associated information at persons who meet certain demographic characteristics. In this way, a user who walks past a busy street corner can configure his or her portable computing device to alert him or her to information that is most appropriate for his or her personal demographic characteristics. In some embodiments, only information that is demographically relevant to a user will trigger an alert and/or be displayed by that user's portable computing device. In some embodiments, the plurality of distinct pieces of spatially associated information that are within a certain proximity of a given user will be presented to the user in a displayed order or hierarchy that is dependent upon the demographic relevance of that information to that particular user.