METHOD FOR RECORDING GATHERED ENVIRONMENTAL DATA

A vehicle uses environmental sensors to gather and record environmental data, which is transmitted to a vehicle-external server after it has been recorded. A public and a non-public category of the road being traversed by the vehicle is taken into account from an existing database. In the case of a public road, a characteristic depiction of the public road is determined using the database and is overlaid on the gathered environmental data with positional accuracy. The gathered environmental data is only ever recorded if the vehicle is on a road that is categorized as public, or if at least one part of the overlaid characteristic depiction of the public road can be identified in the environmental data gathered by at least one environmental sensor of the vehicle.