Digital maps displaying search-resulting points-of-interest in user delimited regions
First Claim
1. A method of displaying points-of-interest (“
- POI”
s) on a digital map, comprising;
displaying a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device;
receiving user input containing a search query;
providing one or more search results associated with the search query, the search results containing geographic coordinates;
receiving user input selecting a geographic region within the digital map;
determining the one or more search results whose geographic coordinates are within the user selected geographic region; and
displaying the determined one or more search results as one or more graphics on the digital map;
wherein the one or more graphics represent one or more POIs.
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Abstract
A method, system and apparatus for displaying points-of-interest (“POIs”) on a digital map are disclosed. One such method includes: presenting a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device, wherein the digital map comprises map tiles and corresponds to a geographic region; receiving free-hand user input selecting a portion of the digital map; delimiting the portion of the digital map selected by the user; determining one or more of the POIs whose geographic coordinates are within the portion of the digital map selected by the user; and displaying a graphic for each of the determined POIs, wherein the displayed graphic is displayed on the digital map at the geographic coordinates of each of the determined one or more POIs.
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1. A method of displaying points-of-interest (“
- POI”
s) on a digital map, comprising;displaying a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device; receiving user input containing a search query; providing one or more search results associated with the search query, the search results containing geographic coordinates; receiving user input selecting a geographic region within the digital map; determining the one or more search results whose geographic coordinates are within the user selected geographic region; and displaying the determined one or more search results as one or more graphics on the digital map;
wherein the one or more graphics represent one or more POIs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- POI”
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11. A method of displaying points-of-interest (“
- POI”
s) on a digital map, comprising;displaying a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device; receiving a first user input requesting suspending future processing of map control commands in subsequent user input; suspending the future processing of the map control commands; receiving a second set of user input; selecting a region of the digital map approximately matching the second set of user input; indicating the selected region of the digital map; receiving a third user input requesting un-suspending the future processing of the map control commands in subsequent user input; un-suspending the future processing of the map control commands; and displaying within the selected region one or more graphics, wherein the one or more graphics each indicates a POI determined to be within the geographic confines of the selected region. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
- POI”
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22. A method of displaying one or more points-of-interest (“
- POI”
s) on a digital map, in conjunction with a free-hand, arbitrary, user-selected geographic region, comprising;presenting a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device, wherein the digital map comprises map tiles and corresponds to a geographic region; receiving free-hand user input selecting a portion of the digital map; delimiting the portion of the digital map selected by the user; determining one or more of the POIs whose geographic coordinates are within the portion of the digital map selected by the user; and displaying a graphic for each of the determined one or more POIs, wherein the displayed graphic is displayed on the digital map at the geographic coordinates of each of the determined one or more POIs. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
- POI”
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