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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2024
Mapbox, Inc., Washington, DC (US);
Fouad Valadbeigi, Lodz, PL;
Mikko Pulkki, Helsinki, FI;
Abstract
Functionality of an electronic map system allows the more efficient rendering of a map on the surface of a globe. The functionality includes culling functionality to more effectively remove from further processing the 'tiles' of map data that will not end up being displayed on the globe. The culling functionality analyzes factors such as the present zoom level, a relationship of a tile to a map center, and a relationship of a three-dimensional bounding box of the tile to a present viewing frustrum, culling tiles that will not ultimately need to be rendered due to not being visible. The functionality also includes operations on the GPU buffer memory that better manage that memory, such as allocating only a single buffer for a grid of vertices, and causing less rendering towards the poles of the globe.