System for automatic instantiation of a generically described location-based traveling experience to specific map coordinates and real-time conditions

A method for providing a location based travel experience (LBTE) that maps user experience locations to real world locations, comprising:

• defining one or more location elements, each of which refers to an experience location not having a predefined position on a real world map;
• generating a graph of the location elements, where nodes represent locations, and parent nodes define routes in-between locations and also define location properties to be inherited by child nodes;
• the location elements further including one or more of:
• map descriptors that refer to map metadata, including metadata about organizations and locations on the real world map;
• real-time descriptors, including at least whether locations are open or closed, or behavior of other users;
• experiential descriptors, including whether line-of-sight between locations should be kept or avoided, a mode of transportation users are expected to employ or whether the route needs to be entirely completed within a set time;
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• nesting and inheritance, such that larger LBTE may be assembled from contained smaller LBTEs;
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• laying out a route by one or more of:
• physically moving from one location to next location in the real world map and selecting points on the real world map for each stop in the LBTE route;
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• operating a flow based layout model where each node in sequence is automatically placed relative to an initial location, via a graph drawing algorithm that identifies possible location placements relative to element constraints based on a best-fit layout.