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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Jeffrey P. Hultquist, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert R. Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);
James A. Howard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Blumenberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey P. Hultquist, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert R. Cook, San Francisco, CA (US);
James A. Howard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Blumenberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and apparatus are described to render a map according to a style sheet. Several embodiments of map rendering are described that may be suitable for rendering individual portions of a map, known as map tiles, which may include one or more features. Embodiments may obtain one or more a map tiles with features that may have one or more style identifiers. Embodiments may identify a style from a stylesheet for each feature in the map tile according to style identifiers in the feature and the style in the stylesheet. Some embodiments may render the one or more map tiles according to the identified styles and may display the rendered map tiles. In some embodiments, a map service generates one or more map tiles with features including style identifiers and sends the one or more map tiles to a client rendering device.