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(11) EP 2 560 144 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3: (51) Int Cl.:

08.01.2014 Bulletin 2014/02 G06T 11/40 (2006.01) G01C 21/32 (2006.01)
G09B 29/00 (2006.01)
(43) Date of publication A2:
20.02.2013 Bulletin 2013/08

(21) Application number: 12189142.8

(22) Date of filing: 23.03.2005

(84) Designated Contracting States: (72) Inventors:

AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR • Rasmussen, Jens Eilstrup
HU IE IS IT LI LT LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR Berkeley, California 94705 (US)
• Rasmussen, Lars Eilstrup
(30) Priority: 23.03.2004 US 555501 P Berkeley, California 94705 (US)
03.05.2004 US 567946 P • Ma, Stephen
07.02.2005 US 650840 P Mountain View, California 94043 (US)

(62) Document number(s) of the earlier application(s) in (74) Representative: Round, Edward Mark
accordance with Art. 76 EPC: Marks & Clerk LLP
05729642.8 / 1 738 329 90 Long Acre
London
(71) Applicant: Google Inc. WC2E 9RA (GB)
Mountain View, CA 94043 (US)

(54) Generating and serving tiles in a digital mapping system

(57) A computing device comprising: a processor; a
communication interface; and a storage device; wherein
the computing device is configured to request map tiles
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as needed from in a tile serving system, receive map tiles
associated with a requested map image from the tile serv-
ing system, combine the map tiles that form the requested
map image, and display the map image.

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