Method and system for advertisement of map using virtual poi (point of interest)

An advertisement system for implementing, on a computer system, a map using a virtual POI, said system comprising:

• a map database stored on a computer readable medium, said map database including map data;
• a membership database stored on a computer readable medium, said membership database including advertisement display configuration information;
• a virtual POI database stored on a computer readable medium, said membership database including stored information about virtual advertisement POI and advertisement location, which is the location of the virtual advertisement POI;
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• a virtual world generation module for generating an image map based on the map data and searching the image map for a virtual advertisement POI associated with a location that can be displayed on the image map and that corresponds to the advertisement display configuration information;
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• displaying the virtual advertisement POI on the advertisement location of the image map.