Patent ID: 8200246

Claim:
A method for displaying point of interest information on a mobile device, comprising: a mobile device identifying a plurality of possible points of interest that are determined to be substantially along a same direction at which the mobile device is pointing; the mobile device detecting a gesture at the mobile device comprising a motion vector of the mobile device towards the selected point of interest and at a particular speed; the mobile device determining, based at least in part on the speed associated with the motion vector, to select a point of interest from the plurality of possible points of interest rather than any other of the possible points of interest that are also determined to be substantially aligned with the same direction at which the mobile device is pointing, and such that at least the speed of the motion vector is used to distinguish at least the selected point of interest from at least one other point of interest that is determined to be in a substantially similar direction relative to the mobile device; at the mobile device, displaying static information and dynamically updateable information associated with the selected point of interest and which is received from a location based network service in communication with the mobile device; receiving change input that alters, deletes or augments the dynamically updateable information associated with the selected point of interest; and synchronizing changes resulting from the change input from the mobile device to the location based network service.