Customized wall map printing system
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Abstract
An electronic wall map design and printing system enables a user to select or specify the size, coverage area and detail level of a wall map and to customize the wall map based on the user'"'"'s needs via a fully automated electronic interface. For ease of viewing during the creation of the wall map, the design and printing system displays the wall map being designed on the electronic user interface at a first detail level or resolution that is less than the level of detail or resolution used to print the wall map. However, the user may use the electronic interface to view portions of the wall map on the user interface at the same level of detail to be actually printed on the wall map to thereby enable the user to assure that the level of detail to be printed on the wall map is adequate for the user'"'"'s purposes without making the wall map, as printed, hard to read. Once the user has designed the wall map by selecting the size, coverage area, and other customizable features such as titles, specialized icons, etc., the user may have the wall map printed at a printing facility owned by the map provider or may have the wall map sent to and printed by a third party printer such as a copying service located near the user.
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80 Claims
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61. A system for viewing a map, the system comprising:
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a selection routine that enables a user at a user interface to specify a selected map area to be displayed;
a first routine that enables the user to obtain map data that pertains to the selected map area, the map data comprising both general geographic details and specific geographic details about the selected map area;
a second routine that displays the selected map area on the user interface showing the general geographic details about the selected map area but not the specific geographic details about the selected map area; and
a third routine that, without changing the selected map area, displays a portion of the selected map area on the user interface showing the specific geographic details pertaining to that portion of the selected map area. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63, 64, 65)
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66. A system for ordering a printed map, the system comprising:
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a selection routine that enables a user at a user interface to specify a selected map area to be displayed on a printed map;
a first routine that enables the user to obtain map data that pertains to the selected map area, the map data including both general geographic details and specific geographic details about the selected map area;
a second routine that displays the selected map area on the user interface showing the general geographic details about the selected map area but not the specific geographic details; and
a third routine that displays an enlarged portion of the selected map area on the user interface while another, unenlarged portion of the selected map area continues to be displayed, revealing the specific geographic details about the enlarged portion of the selected map area. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69, 70)
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71. A method of displaying a map, the method comprising:
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enabling a user to specify a selected map area to be displayed;
displaying general geographic details of the selected map area on a user interface; and
without changing the selected map area, displaying a portion of the selected map area on a larger scale, revealing specific geographic details about that portion of the selected map area. - View Dependent Claims (72, 73, 74, 75)
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76. A method of creating a printed map, the method comprising:
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storing map data in a map database at a first location;
enabling a user at a second location to specify a selected map area to be printed on the wall map, and to access and to obtain map data that pertains to the selected map area via a publicly-accessible communication network;
displaying two different portions of the selected map area on a user interface at the second location at two different levels of geographic map detail; and
enabling the user to command the map to be printed at a third location with data sent from the first location to the third location, without the data being sent through the second location. - View Dependent Claims (77, 78, 79, 80)
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