Patent ID: 11920945
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing landmark-assisted navigation guidance by selectively utilizing database information, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of navigation requests from one or more mobile computing devices, each of the navigation requests being associated with a respective starting point, destination, and travel mode;
for each navigation request of the plurality of navigation requests, determining, based on the starting point and the destination corresponding to the navigation request, a corresponding route to be depicted in a corresponding one of a plurality of digital maps;
for each of the navigation requests associated with a first travel mode,
determining corresponding points of interest, from among a plurality of points of interest stored in a database, to be depicted in the corresponding digital map, wherein each of the corresponding points of interest is associated in the database with one or more categories, and wherein determining the corresponding points of interest is based at least in part on whether the corresponding points of interest are associated with one or more categories included in a predetermined list of landmark categories corresponding to landmarks for navigation, and
causing the corresponding digital map to be presented via a graphical user interface of a respective one of the mobile computing devices, the corresponding digital map depicting the corresponding route and the corresponding points of interest; and

for each of the navigation requests associated with a second travel mode different than the first travel mode,
determining corresponding points of interest, from among the plurality of points of interest stored in the database, to be depicted in the corresponding digital map irrespective of whether the corresponding points of interest are associated with any categories included in the predetermined list of landmark categories, and
causing the corresponding digital map to be presented via a graphical user interface of a respective one of the mobile computing devices, the corresponding digital map depicting the corresponding route and the corresponding points of interest.