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Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2012
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Gordon Gregory Bowman, Kanata, CA;

Gerhard Dietrich Klassen, Waterloo, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device, the method comprising obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device and determining a zoom level of the map. If the zoom level of the map exceeds a predetermined zoom level, corrected map data is generated by applying a fixed spherical correction factor to the map data. If the zoom level of the map does not exceed the predetermined zoom level, the corrected map data is generated by computing a spherical correction factor based on a latitude of the map. The method also includes rendering the corrected map data to display the map on a display of the wireless communications device.


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