Apple Inc.

Yahoo! Inc.

Xiaoyi Wu

Matthew G Lindsay

Norman Shi

Moran Ben-David

Some embodiments provide a method for identifying one or more entrances to a point of interest or commercial entity (e.g., a shopping mall, a store, a business, etc.) using crowd sourced data received from a set of mobile devices over a specific period of time. The method identifies one or more points of entry to an enclosed area (e.g., a parking garage) associated with a point of interest (POI), as well as one or more points of entry to a building associated with the POI (e.g., a museum). When a user requests for directions to a particular POI, a navigation application of some embodiments uses these points of entry as the real driving and walking destinations when calculating and displaying a route to the particular POI.

Discovering points of entry to a location

In one example, an apparatus and method are provided for rendering map images. In one example, an apparatus (e.g., a map server) includes logic for causing the transfer of tiled vector image data in response to a map request, wherein the vector data is associated with stored map data divided into a plurality of tiles. The tiled vector image data is transferred to a remote device (e.g., a client device) for rendering of the map image. Additionally, the vector image data may comprise one or more attributes associated therewith, the one or more attributes configurable by a receiving device. For example, the map image may be rendered (e.g., customized) based on one or more local attributes to vary the language used, colors, how items in the map are displayed, and other imaging characteristics of the map image.

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