Method for providing information in system including electronic device and information providing server, and electronic device thereof

An electronic device, comprising:

• a communicator configured to communicate with an information providing server;
• an inputter configured to receive a user command;
• a displayer;
• and
• a controller which, in response to the user command requesting local information input through the inputter, transmits location information of a region that a user wishes to search and a local information request signal to the information providing server, controls the communicator to receive the local information of the region searched in real time using at least one social network service, by the information providing server, in response to the local information request signal, and controls the displayer to display a local information user interface (UI) using the local information received from the information providing server and a map of the region.

A method for providing information in a system including an electronic device and an information providing server, comprising:

• transmitting a user written question to the information providing server to request local information, by the electronic device;
• analyzing location information of a region and the local information that a user wishes to search, by the information providing server;
• extracting at least one respondent user to the user written question by searching user information of other pre-registered users, by the information providing server;
• transmitting the user written question to at least one other electronic device which corresponds to the at least one extractedrespondent user, by the information providing server;
• and
• receiving a response to the user written question by the at least one extracted respondent user from the at least one other electronic device, by the at least one other electronic device.

A method for providing information in an electronic device, the method comprising:

• transmitting location information of a region that a user wishes to search and a local information request signal to an information providing server;
• receiving searched local information from the information providing server;
• and
• displaying a local information user interface (UI) using the searched local information received from the information providing server and a map of the region,
• wherein the searched local information from the information providing server includes local information of the region provided by at least one user located in the region.