Patent ID: 8532916

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a geographic location from a client device; determining a feature type of a feature at the geographic location, wherein the feature type is associated with a ranked set of view categories of the plurality of view categories in a matrix, the matrix defining ranked relationships between different ones of the feature types and view categories; determining a highest ranked view category associated with the feature type; selecting, if available, a view of the geographic location such that the selected view is associated with the received geographic location and is further associated with the highest ranked view category, and when a view of the geographic location associated with the received geographic location and further associated with the highest ranked view category is not available, determining a next highest ranked view category and selecting, if available, a next view of the geographic location such that the next view is associated with the geographic location and is further associated with the next highest ranked view category; and transmitting the selected next view to the client device.