Automated prioritization of map objects

A system for automatically generating a map, the system comprising:

• a map source data module including a list of city names to be identified on a map;
• and
• a mapping engine for:
• associating each city name with a city category according to a determined frequency of the city name in a corpus of documents;
• and
• generating a map including the city names, wherein the appearance of each city name on the map is determined by the category with which it is associated.

A computer program product for automatically generating a map, the computer program product stored on a computer-readable medium and including program code configured to cause a processor to carry out the steps of:

• determining a frequency of each of a plurality of city names in a corpus of documents;
• associating each city name with a city category according to the determined frequency of the city name in the corpus;
• and
• generating a map including the city names, wherein the appearance of each city name on the map is determined by the category with which it is associated.