This invention relates to a fluid scale bar ruler for use with a map that allows a user to drag the fluid scale bar ruler to a first point and a second point to estimate the measurement between the two points without the need to leave the original screen. The fluid scale bar ruler can be pinched…
A method includes obtaining map data associated with a map of a geographic location including one or more roadways, the map including a first submap represented by a first local Euclidean space and a second submap represented by a second local Euclidean space. A route that includes a first roadway…
A system and method include a server device which transmits a list of passengers for a vehicle route. The list of passengers may include profiles for each one of the passengers. The server device may further receive a unique identification for a passenger boarding a vehicle and compare the unique…
An embodiment for engaging with an electronic map for an effective vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) network is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data from one or more IoT devices and an electronic map of one or more roadways. The embodiment may also include…
This application relates to a method for presenting roading conditions. The method includes presenting an initial navigation screen, and displaying a target navigation route on the initial navigation screen; and presenting a target navigation screen in response to a navigation trigger event, and…
A vehicle display control device includes a processor. The processor acquires map information based on a current position of a vehicle. The processor acquires peripheral information of the vehicle. The processor sets, based on the map information and the peripheral information, a first display area…
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to display a geographical map overlaid with a marker layer comprising at least one marker; receive input from a user to change a zoom level of the geographical map from a first map scale to a second map scale; display the…
Techniques for perspective-preserving seamless application switching are disclosed. A system may display a first interface using a first application. The first interface includes interface elements representing a plurality of objects. The system may detect a zoom-in command, received by the first…
A method for providing a map scale, using a computing device having one or more processors, comprising providing a geographic area for display on a display of a device, receiving information corresponding to a first input associated with a geographic location within the geographic area, providing…
An apparatus for setting an orientation mode includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to a context for a route to be navigated by a user. In various examples, the code causes the processor to determine an orientation mode for the context. In various examples…
The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for dynamic route estimation and prediction using discrete sampled location updates from various mobile devices for the purpose of providing a graphical representation of a mobile device's route along a known…
Embodiments of the present disclosure aim to improve upon systems and methods for generalising topographical map data relating to the road network for use at different scale levels. The existing systems of the prior art are able to collapse the two carriageways of a dual carriageway to a single…
Exemplary embodiments relate to an information display system (10), a vehicle (200), a method and a program with program code. The information display system (10) comprises a processor (12) which is configured to generate a video or control signal such that a multilayered display area (30) viewed…
A navigation system has at least one processor. A memory is coupled to the processor. The memory stores program instructions that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: display a map; display a cursor showing a present location of a vehicle on the map; display a menu screen to…
The present invention provides a loading method and apparatus for a map label. The loading method comprises: in response to an instruction to scale up a map, searching for a newly added point of interest in a current visible area of the map after it has been scaled up with respect to the map before…
A computer-implemented method includes determining a current location of a mobile device, displaying in a map viewport a first map area surrounding the current location of the mobile device and displaying on the first map area a graphical current location indicator representing the current location…
A computer-implemented mapping method comprises determining a fixed reference point (240), displaying a static-scale map (200) on a display screen (150) of a computing device (100) such that the map always includes the fixed reference point, and displaying a graphical discontinuity indicator (210)…
A navigation apparatus includes a priority information database that stores display priority of a plurality of additional images (301) to be displayed on a map image, and a control unit configured to adjust opacity of the additional images according to the display priority when an overlap between…
Various embodiments relate to a method and a device for depicting geographical map data in the form of at least two map views (20a, 21a) on a display (1), in particular of a navigation device. The map views are arranged such that a reference location (2) has the same position on the display (1)…
Systems and method of displaying supplementary information on a display based on contact points is provided. Two or more contact points are detected on a presented graphic, such as a map or graph shown on a display on an electronic device. A portion of the presented graphic object that is bounded…
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a frame of a map based on a current travel-direction for tracking a movement of a first device; generating a directional-tile from the frame based on the current travel-direction; and transferring the directional-tile for displaying…
A method of displaying a map on a mobile device showing a current location of the mobile device, the method comprising determining the current location of the mobile device, displaying the map at a first zoom level, displaying a map magnifier at the current location of the mobile device on the map…
A method of displaying points of interest in a perspective view of a geographical area on a display of a navigation device is provided. In the method, a perspective view of the geographical area is displayed on the display of the navigation device. Further, points of interest are displayed as…
The method involves selecting a scale for presentation or to-be-displayed additional information. A scale associated with the selected additional information or additional information associated with the selected scale is determined automatically. A vehicle surrounding area is displayed on the…
A navigation device includes a road periphery display change unit 3 that selects a road R which connects to, intersects with, or is adjacent to a guidance route/a travel plan route 21 from a map database 5, and displays the road in a high contrast on the inside of a predetermined distance from the…
A method for displaying a map on a mobile client device. The method includes storing map data on a server, the map data including road data with respect to roads of multiple different road types. The server determines a route from a starting point to a destination within an area covered by the map…
A navigation device according to the present invention includes a storage unit (12), which stores map information, a position detecting unit (13), which detects a position of a moving body, a controller (10), which generates drawing data where the map information stored in the storage unit (12) and…
A map display system comprising: a map information acquiring unit, a congestion level acquiring unit, a route line display determining unit that determines whether a route line (P), representing a planned travel route, is displayed superimposed on a road line (R) representing a road section within…
A method of magnifying a portion of a map displayed on a computing device includes displaying the map at a first zoom level and displaying a magnified portion of the map at a second zoom level. The magnified portion comprises an interactive map element. The magnified portion acts as a localized map…
A method for generating a sub-pixel bitmap in a tile-based digital mapping system, comprising: assigning a unique color for each source in a map to be created at a desired resolution; drawing a bitmap of the map at a higher resolution than the desired resolution, wherein each sub-pixel bitmap pixel…