Samuel Clinton Matthews

US Patent:

20180181576, Jun 28, 2018

Filed:

Dec 22, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/388931

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
Samuel V. Matthews - Seattle WA, US
Jacob R. Pruitt - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06K 9/00

Abstract:

A method comprises receiving, at a server computer, a request for a map tile, wherein the request specifies a map style, and wherein the map tile has been previously digitally stored and comprises a plurality of digital electronic map data of a portion of a geographical map; based on the map style and the map tile identified in the request, generating an optimized map tile, wherein the optimized map tile comprises less than all of the plurality of electronic map data of the map tile identified in the request; and sending the optimized map tile to the client map application.