Patent ID: 9671929
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for resolving, operating and displaying POI stacks in a virtual environment displayed on a screen surface, comprising: when selecting a first POI stack with a plurality of POI's contained in the first POI stack, automatically scaling a representation of the virtual environment such that POI's contained in the first POI stack are represented on the screen surface so that individual POI's maintain a minimum size and a minimum distance to a neighboring POI when correctly positioned in the virtual environment, when the minimum distance cannot be maintained, combining a subset of the plurality of POI's contained in the first POI stack in at least one second POI stack as a function of a respective position of the individual POI's in the virtual environment, wherein the minimum distance is formed as a function of a threshold value, which is calculated dynamically and as a function of the available screen surface and of the total number POI's to be represented, displaying the individual POI's and the at least one second POI stack on the screen surface, when the second POI stack is selected by a user, representing the POI's contained in the second POI stack and the respective virtual environment in an adapted scale by dividing the second POI stack into its components, changing and increasing the displayed scale of the geographical map until all or at least a portion of the POI's contained in the POI stack can be displayed individually and can be correctly positioned in the virtual environment while still enabling navigation, and displaying a maximum possible number of POI's simultaneously in a meaningful way when correctly positioned in the virtual environment.