Patent ID: 8019282

Claim:
A mobile computing device, comprising: a wireless transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with a database of geographic data for a plurality of entities stored on a remote site; a display configured to display a map; a user input device configured to receive a query from a user; a processing circuit configured to query the database based on the query and a locality criteria, to receive geographic data for one or more of the plurality of entities meeting the query and the locality criteria, and to display the received geographic data on the map; wherein a plurality of wireless local area network access points are detected using the wireless transceiver, address data from each of the plurality of detected access points via the wireless transceiver is received, and the current location of the mobile computing device is calculated using address data from each of the plurality of detected access points; wherein the locality criteria comprises the current location of the mobile computing device as determined by the mobile computing device based on the address data obtained from each of the plurality of detected access points; and wherein the query comprises a type characteristic of a point of interest.