Patent ID: 7388519

Claim:
A method, comprising the computer-implemented steps of: displaying a geographical map; displaying in the map, concurrently, icons identifying two or more points of interest at graphical locations in the map corresponding to geographical locations of the points of interest; concurrently displaying, over the map, for each of the two or more points of interest at different geographical locations, particular qualitative information associated with the associated point of interest; wherein all the qualitative information for all the points of interest is concurrently displayed in the map; displaying, over the map, for each of the points of interest, an information box comprising the qualitative information for the associated point of interest, a first control which when selected causes displaying a higher level of information in the information box, and a second control which when selected causes displaying a lower level of information in the information box; wherein each of the points of interest is associated with one or more datasets, and wherein different qualitative information is displayed for different datasets.