Patent ID: 8856671

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining to display a basket component in a map application of a communication device, the basket component including at least a visual representation of a container configured to accept interest information; formulating the interest information including a plurality of points of interest based on, at least in part, a point of interest category, each of the plurality of points of interest including at least descriptive information; determining to display the interest information in a source collection and determining to display other interest information in one or more other source collections; selecting at least one point of interest from formulated interest information to be moved into the basket component by a drag-and-drop interface activity; formulating composite information based on selected points of interest in the basket component; determining to display the composite information on a map; and communicating between the communication device and a remote application platform to facilitate a synchronization function, wherein the synchronization function comprises one or more of storage and communication of the interest information to facilitate information sharing amongst subscribers to the map application, and communication of one or more of synchronization requests, commands and synchronization-related information.