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PRESENTING A TRAVEL ROUTE

  • US 20080147313A1
  • Filed: 02/22/2008
  • Published: 06/19/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for presenting a route, the method comprising:

  • accessing route information for a route that includes an origin location and a destination location;

    generating a context map that includes the origin location, the destination location, and a route between the origin location and destination location;

    generating at least one detail map, associated with the context map, that includes a portion of the route such that the detail map includes at most one of the origin location or the destination location and maneuvers that are within a predetermined distance from one another;

    generating an animation of traveling the route, the animation displaying the route and at least one point of interest along the route; and

    communicating the at least one detail map and the context map to a user system for concurrent presentation on a display associated with the user system, andwherein the animation is user-controllable such that a user controls the starting and the stopping of displaying the route, and when the animation is stopped, the animation displays the at least one point of interest associated with the point of the route at which the animation is stopped.

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