Information processing system, mobile information terminal, server, and information processing method

A mobile information terminal comprising:

• a current position acquisition unit configured to acquire a current position of the terminal;
• an acknowledging unit configured to acknowledge user designation of whether positional information indicating a position arbitrarily designated by a user on a scaled map displayed on the terminal or positional information indicating the current position of the terminal acquired by the current position acquisition unit is to be added to data to be stored in an external server along with the positional information;
• and
• a transmitting unit configured to transmit to the server the data to which user designated positional information is added,
• wherein the server includes a storage unit configured to store the data transmitted from the terminal along with the positional information,
• wherein the data represents information that the user of the terminal shares with a user of a second mobile information terminal, and
• wherein the second mobile information terminal includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the server the information to be shared, to which positional information indicating a neighborhood of the current position of the terminal is added.

A computer program embedded on a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, comprising:

• a current position acquisition module configured to acquire a current position of a terminal;
• an acknowledging module configured to acknowledge user designation of whether positional information indicating a position arbitrarily designated by a user on a scaled map displayed on the terminal or positional information indicating the current position of the terminal acquired by the current position acquisition module is to be added to data to be stored in an external server along with the positional information;
• and
• a transmitting module configured to transmit to the server the data to which user designated positional information is added,
• wherein the server includes a storage unit configured to store the data transmitted from the terminal along with the positional information,
• wherein the data represents information that the user of the terminal shares with a user of a second terminal, and
• wherein the second terminal includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the server the information to be shared, to which positional information indicating a neighborhood of the current position of the terminal is added.

A server adapted to store data along with positional information, comprising:

• an acknowledging unit configured to acknowledge, from an external mobile information terminal, data to which is added positional information indicating a position arbitrarily designated by a user on a scaled map displayed on the terminal or positional information indicating the current position of the terminal, according to user selection;
• and
• a storage unit configured to store the acknowledged data along with the positional information,
• wherein the data represents information that the user of the terminal shares with a user of a second terminal, and
• wherein the second terminal includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the server the information to be shared, to which positional information indicating a neighborhood of the current position of the terminal is added.

An information processing method comprising:

• acquiring, using a mobile information terminal, a current position of the terminal;
• acknowledging, using the mobile information terminal, user designation of whether positional information indicating a position arbitrarily designated by a user on a scaled map displayed on the terminal or positional information indicating the current position of the terminal is to be added to data to be stored in an external server along with the positional information;
• and
• transmitting to the server, using the mobile information terminal, the data to which user designated positional information is added;
• storing, using the server, the data transmitted from the mobile information terminal along with the positional information,
• wherein the data represents information that the user of terminal shares with a user of a second terminal, and
• wherein the second terminal acquires, from the server, the information to be shared, to which positional information indicating a neighborhood of the current position of the terminal is added.