Patent ID: 8977498
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a mobile device, from a route engine or from a user interface, a selection of a route of a geographic map; submitting a query on the selected route by the mobile device and to a navigation service; receiving route information on the selected route by the mobile device and as a response to the query from the navigation service, the route information comprising user ratings of the selected route and route characteristics of the selected route, the user ratings and route characteristics being previously received by the navigation service from a plurality of computing devices, wherein the user rating of the selected route and route characteristics of the selected route are provided by users of the computing devices, and displaying a representation of the route information about the selected route on the mobile device, the representation comprising an average of the user ratings and at least a portion of the route characteristics that include pre-defined characteristics of the route that are most commonly selected by the users of the computing devices.