A method and system are provided for collecting images of objects at
geographic locations for publication in an online directory, such as
online Yellow Pages. A camera and a GPS receiver, both receiving time
information from a synchronized clock, are mounted on a vehicle.
Time-stamped images captured by the camera and time-stamped geographic
locations (e.g., longitude and latitude coordinates) determined by the
GPS receiver are recorded. Each image is then associated with a
geographic location based on corresponding respective time-stamps.
Thereafter, each image is correlated with a street addresses based on
each image's associated geographic location, for example by referring to
a lookup table that correlates addresses with geographic coordinates. The
address-correlated images may then be used in an online directory, where
each listing (e.g., business) can be displayed with an image of an object
(e.g., store front) taken at the address in the listing.