Google Inc.

Bernhard Seefeld

Jonah Jones

Matthew Robert Simpson

Willem Van Lancker

Andrew Ofstad

Neal Kanodia

Nina Kang

Elizabeth M Windram

Octavian Procopiuc

Jonathan P Siegel

Su Chuin Leong

Paul Merrell

Yatin Dilip Chawathe

Kelvin Ho

Daniel Otero

Alirez Ali

John Alistair Hawkins

Glen Murphy

Jyrki Antero Alakuijala

Krzysztof Duleba

Nicholas Lee

Luuk Van Dijk

Keekim Heng

Nicholas Jitkoff

Christopher Vander Mey

Arnaud Sahuguet

Taj J Campbell

Tobias Boonstoppel

Fiona Herring

Andrew Eland

Matthew Zhong Qing Wu

Myles Jordan

Michael Bürge

Kee Kim Jonathan Heng

Michael Buerge

A mapping system allows a user to interact with any location on a digital map and present the user with location related information associated with the selected location. The location related information may be in the form or a card, pop-up, image, or other graphic and may be displayed on the map at or near the selected location, around the map, etc. The displayed location related information may include predetermined or pre-stored data about the location or may include location related information collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction with the digital map. The displayed location related information may be displayed in the same graphical format on the digital map regardless of whether location related information is predetermined information about the location that already exists or information that is collected and generated on the fly in response to the user interaction.

Method and apparatus for supporting user interactions with non-designated locations on a digital map

A response to a first query related to a geographic area, and search results responsive to a second query related to the geographic area, are received from a server system. A digital map of the geographic is provided via a user interface. A focus is provided to the first query to illustrate the response on the digital map, where the response defines a geographic context. A subset of the search results is identified based on a relationship to the geographic context. The search results in the identified subset are visually emphasized on the digital map relative to the rest of the search results.

Processing the results of multiple search queries in a mapping application

Method and apparatus for supporting user interactions with non- designated locations on a digital map

Computing device having a graphical user interface for a map application

A user interface for a map display application used on a computing device includes a strip of photographic images corresponding to objects located within a geographic location represented by a map displayed on a screen. More specifically, the strip of photographic images is responsive to the viewing experience of the user.

Method and apparatus for contextually varying amounts of imagery on a map

A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, may mark areas of interest on a map based on metadata associated with one or more features of the map. Additional map features may be created to mark the areas of interest or styles of existing map features may be modified to mark the areas of interest.

Automatic meta-neighborhood and annotation generation for maps

A mapping system determines points of interest that are related to a selected point of interest within a digital map displayed at a client computing device. The system receives a request for mapping system data from a client computing device. The request indicates a selected point of interest (POI) that is displayed at a geographic location within the digital map. The selected POI corresponds to a list of words describing characteristics of the selected POI, and each word corresponding to the selected POI word includes a base score describing an importance of the word compared to a list of all words corresponding to displayable POIs. The system determines POIs that are related to the selected POI by comparing base scores of the selected POI words to base scores of related POI words, where the related POIs each include at least one word in common with the selected POI.

Highlighting related points of interest in a geographical region

A system and method determines ambiguous or missing information about map features, generates questions to address the ambiguity or the missing information and determines users from whom to request feedback to clarify the ambiguity or supply the missing information.

Proactive user-based content correction and enrichment for geo data

A system for enabling the drag and drop behavior detects a cursor over a non-input element and creates a container to receive an object dragged by the cursor. When the cursor drops an object on the non-input element, the container receives and stores the dropped object. The system then removes the container and provides the stored object to input field associated with the non-input element.

Web input through drag and drop

Methods and apparatus for displaying information content in a user interface. The content includes an information panel that contains at least one information element. Information indicating a position within the user interface is used to automatically determine whether to display the information panel in its expanded or collapsed state. The title of the information panel is displayed. The title of the information element is displayed beneath the information panel title when the information panel is displayed in its expanded state. The title of the information element is not displayed when the information panel is displayed in its collapsed state.

Expandable and collapsible information panels

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Bernhard Seefeld