A computer-implemented technique is presented. The technique can include receiving, at a mobile computing device including one or more processors, an input from a user, the input indicating a weather severity threshold for providing a notification at the m...

An electronic device includes a position sensing circuit that receives a tone from an audio signal output, modifies the tone, and returns the modified tone to audio signal input. The device's processor implements instructions to compare one or more charact...

The present invention relates to rendering, viewing and annotating panoramic images. In an embodiment, a system may be used for viewing panoramic images. The system includes a panorama viewer that receives at least a portion of a first panoramic image and ...

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 reso...

A computer-implemented mapping method is disclosed and includes displaying a first map view of a geographic area on a display of a computing device, receiving a voice or key-press zoom command and generating a first zoom box of a predetermined size on the ...