Patent ID: 8660316

Claim:
A method of routing directly on images, the method comprising: identifying a point selected on an initial image; determining an image pixel of the initial image corresponding to the identified point, the image pixel of the initial image representing an origin; accessing a data tag associated with the image pixel, wherein the data tag designates the image pixel as navigable or non-navigable; determining common geographic features in images from the initial image to another image to correlate the intermediate image pixels; and generating a route from the origin to a destination when the data tag designates the image pixel as navigable, wherein the destination corresponds to another image pixel, and wherein the route comprises a connection between the origin and the destination via intermediate image pixels between the image pixel of the initial image and the other image pixel, wherein the other image pixel corresponding to the destination comprises an image pixel of the other image, wherein the intermediate image pixels are designated as navigable pixels.