Patent ID: 8170791
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a list of places of interest related to an identified travel route, the method comprising: receiving a user input to request a travel route; obtaining the travel route between an originating point and a destination point based on vector data that includes at least a first vector and a second vector; accessing, from across a communications network, a bit-mapped image of a map from a remote computer covering a geographical area that includes at least the originating point and the destination point; displaying at least a portion of the bit-mapped image; generating a representation of the travel route, the representation being correlated with at least one position within the bit-mapped image of the map; displaying the representation of the travel route over the portion of the bit-mapped image at the correlated position; identifying places of interest associated with the travel route; modifying the map to depict the places of interest along the travel route; and displaying the modified map with the representation of the travel route and the places of interest.