Patent ID: 8427510

Claim:
A computer assisted method for generating an interactive digitized map of a venue seating arrangement, comprising: receiving a data source file with a venue seating arrangement, the venue seating arrangement comprising a plurality of sections, each section having a location in the venue seating arrangement, each section further having at least one row; generating from the data source file, a vectorized venue map comprising a plurality of section outlines, each section outline corresponding to a section of the venue seating arrangement, comprising: receiving a user input placing a section outline on the vectorized venue map for a section in the data source file; receiving a user input of a number of rows in the section; receiving a user input of a number of seats in each row in the section; receiving a user input of an alignment of each row in the section; and generating for the section in data source file, a section outline based on the number of rows, number of seats, and the alignment of each row in the section; associating a section label with each section outline in the venue map; generating from the data source file, within each section outline, lines indicating the location of the rows within the section; placing within the venue map, the section label for each section outline and a row label for each row within a section outline; and storing in a computer storage medium the vectorized venue map in a vectorized representation including the section outlines, section labels, and row labels.