Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Andrew Alan Bell

David Ross Buerer

Simon Levi Shapiro

Derek Richard Westcott

Dvir Horovitz

Srinivas Kanakapally

Sudhakar Pitchumani

A computerized mapping system is provided, including a map server configured to, in a map serving phase, receive a request from a client device to view a portion of a map at least partially including a building for which an indoor map is available, at a requested level of detail that is outside a range for displaying the indoor map, and transmit a target tile with a prerendered bitmap image for the building, and a client-side renderable geometric element with a perimeter and a client-side renderable visual feature of the internal map feature of the indoor map selected according to a selection criterion set by an authorized user of the indoor map, to the client device for display.

Client-renderable element for indoor building map

A mapping system disclosed herein includes a requestor that transmits requests for different layer sets of mapping data for a digital map to one or more data sources across a network according to a predefined order. According to one implementation, the mapping system also processes and/or renders the different layer sets to a display according to the predefined order.

Prioritized requesting of mapping layers

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Andrew Alan Bell