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of cars that are operated for making deliveries. Geographic information is gathered that relates the shipment automobile positions to the addresses associated with the deliveries. Look At This Piece described in U.S. Pat. 6,047,234 and 6,816,784 manage beneficial benefits. Nevertheless, there still exists space for further improvements connecting to collection of information for a geographical database. SUMMARY.

OF THE INVENTIONTo address these and other goals, today innovation consists of a technique for gathering geographic data throughout game play. A game situation includes an activity for the video game player to perform. The incentive may be of non-monetary, monetary or small value. Performing the activity within the context of the game straight or indirectly leads to the generation of information that is collected and utilized for the function of upgrading or contributing to a geographic database. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS FIG. FIG. 2 block diagram revealing a system for performing one of the steps of FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a flowchart revealing actions in a process performed by the first embodiment. IN-DEPTH DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENTLY PREFERRED EMBODIMENTSFIG. 1 shows a geographical location 100. The geographical location 100 might be a part of a city, state or country. Located in the geographic location 100 are a plurality of users of portable electronic gadgets 112. The portable electronic gadgets 112 can be used for playing games. The portable electronic gadgets 112 might be implemented on numerous different hardware and/or software platforms. For example, the different types of portable electronic devices 112 may consist of traditional cellphones, general function individual digital assistants("PDAs"), portable media gamers, portable navigation systems, digital cams, and devoted video game playing devices. A game services server 116 supports the users of the portable electronic devices 112 located in the location 100. The game services server 116 might be found in the geographical area 100 or may lie remotely from the geographical location 100. The users of the portable electronic gadgets 112 communicate with the video game services server 116 over a network 118, a minimum of a part of which consists of a cordless network. It is recognized that there might be numerous different kinds of gadgets and servers with different type of components. The exemplary portable electronic gadget 112 in FIG. 2 includes software and hardware 128 for exchanging information over the network 118 with the from another location located video game