Uncertainty-based map visualizations for directing vehicles

A method of determining and presenting visual representations, comprising:

• receiving a set of coordinates representing one or more geographic locations of one or more features of interest;
• defining a region corresponding to the set of coordinates, the region having an extent based on a level of uncertainty associated with the one or more features of interest;
• acquiring a probability distribution describing a probability of the one or more features of interest occurring at a given location, the probability distribution defined relative to a coordinate;
• and
• generating a visual representation of the defined region and presenting the visual representation on a map, wherein the visual representation includes one or more visual features representing the probability distribution as a function of distance from the coordinate.

A vehicle system comprising:

• a memory having computer readable instructions;
• and
• a processing device for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions controlling the processing device to perform a method comprising:
• receiving a set of coordinates representing one or more geographic locations of one or more features of interest;
• defining a region corresponding to the set of coordinates, the region having an extent based on a level of uncertainty associated with the one or more features of interest;
• acquiring a probability distribution describing a probability of the one or more features of interest occurring at a given location, the probability distribution defined relative to a coordinate;
• and
• generating a visual representation of the defined region and presenting the visual representation on a map, wherein the visual representation includes one or more visual features representing the probability distribution as a function of distance from the coordinate.