Google Inc.

Taj J Campbell

Masanori Goto

Madoka Katayama

Takahiro Kosakai

Ryo Kawaguchi

Pawel Szczepanski

Koichi Suematsu

Jonah Jones

Bernhard Seefeld

Naoto Kaneko

Keiji Maekawa

Salahuddin Choudhary

Hector Ouilhet

Rishi Agarwal

Daniel Graf

Evelyn Kim

Eric Wu

Takahito Hirano

Peter Foo

Kaori Kozai

Janet Yuen Ting Cheung

Fred Vaucher

Vikki Ku

Mobile computing device with a graphical user interface with schematic representation of geographic locations

A computer-implemented method and system may promote points of interest (POIs) for display on a digital map at a client computing device based on context information associated with a user. Location data from a client computing device may indicate a geographic location of the computing device. Using the location data, the system may determine a user classification indicating a degree of familiarity with the location indicated by the location data. Promotion data may be determined based on the location data and the user classification. The promotion data may indicate one or more sets of POIs to be promoted. The system may then send the determined promotion data to the client computing device, enabling display on the client computing device of the one or more indicated sets of POIs.

Method and apparatus for providing suggestions driven by nearby favorites

A current context of a geographic application executing on a user device is determined. Commercial geographic content is selected for presentation at the user device based at least in part on the determined current context, and the commercial geographic content is provided to the user device via a communication network. A first indication is received, indicating that the commercial geographic content was presented at a first level of detail via a user interface of the user device. In response to the first indication, a first metric is updated. As second indication is received, indicating that the commercial geographic content was presented at a second level of detail via the user interface of the user device in response to user input, where the second level of detail is higher than the first level of detail. A second metric is updated in response to the second indication.

Providing commercial information in a geographic application

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

An entry point card displayed within a mapping application viewport may display context and other data based on a calendar appointment and other data that the user might, predictably, want to search for upon opening the mapping application. Using appointment information from a calendar application, an entry point card might display a time the user must leave his current location in order to make the appointment on time. Or, using a history of the user's routine errands or trips, the entry point card may display predicted information. For example, the card may display an amount of time to get to work or other information.

System and method for displaying dynamic text content with a digital map

A user interface of a mobile computing device having a mobile operating system and a display device utilizes a picker application to facilitate selection of an activity. More specifically, the picker application presents at least one radial list of items to provide an effective process for selecting activities categorized amongst one or more locales or neighborhoods associated with a location.

Mobile user interface for a picker application

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query for ratable entities, identifying at least one ratable entity responsive to the search query, and sending a webpage to a client device, the webpage including instructions that cause the client device to display one of a plurality of interfaces of a rating card for the at least one ratable entity, including instructions to initially display a first interface having a first graphical user interface (GUI) element for receiving a rating input, and instructions to display a second interface having a second GUI element upon receiving input in the first GUI element of the first interface.

Rating and review interface

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