Patent ID: 8584015

Claim:
A method performed by one or more processes executing on a computer system, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of user-specified digital images, each image having an associated capture time; organizing the received images according to their respective capture times to form an ordered set of images; identifying one or more boundaries within the ordered set of images to define an ordered set of image groups, each group corresponding to a different geographical region; retrieving a map for each of the geographical regions; and generating a slideshow of the user-specified images, wherein the slideshow comprises: one or more slides for each image group, the one or more slides comprising the images for the image group, an introductory slide for each image group that includes the map for the geographical region corresponding to the image group and precedes the one or more slides for the image group, and a visual transition between each consecutive pair of image groups in the ordered set of image groups that visually connects the maps for the geographical regions corresponding to the image groups in the consecutive pair of image groups based, at least in part, on a type of terrain that is between the geographical regions corresponding to the consecutive pair of image groups.