Method, Server Apparatus, and Motor Vehicle for Automatically Mapping Sections of a Surrounding Area

The disclosure relates to a method and to a server apparatus and to a motor vehicle for automatically mapping a surrounding area. In the method, the server apparatus creates a route network map of the surrounding area from odometry data from a fleet of respective motor vehicles. The server apparatus generates a mapping plan for mapping sections of the surrounding area. The mapping plan divides the surrounding area into multiple subareas and defines at least one subarea that is still to be mapped. The fleet vehicles are then iteratively instructed to collect surroundings data in accordance with the mapping plan only for subareas that are still to be mapped and to transmit said surroundings data to the server apparatus, and the mapping plan is accordingly updated based on the received surroundings data in order to avoid collecting and transmitting redundant surroundings data for subareas that have already been mapped.