| US 7,599,790 B2 | ||
| Generating and serving tiles in a digital mapping system | ||
| Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, San Francisco, Calif. (US); Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen, Fairlight (Australia); and Stephen Ma, Kingsford (Australia) | ||
| Assigned to Google Inc., Mountain View, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 23, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/88,542. | ||
| Application 11/088542 is a continuation in part of application No. 11/051534, filed on Feb. 05, 2005. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/650840, filed on Feb. 07, 2005. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/567946, filed on May 03, 2004. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/555501, filed on Mar. 23, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0270299 A1, Dec. 08, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01C 21/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 701—208 [340/995.14] | 43 Claims |
| 1. A system for generating map tiles for a tile-based digital mapping system comprising:
a map painter module for generating digital map images;
a tile maker for generating map tiles from the digital map images, wherein the tile maker operates according to a configuration
file that defines areas and zoom levels for map tiles to be generated and the tile maker uses the map painter module to generate
the digital map images for areas defined in the configuration file; and
a tile storage for storing map tiles generated by the tile maker.
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