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US 2008/0270366 A1Published application
User interface for geographic search
AssigneeMetacarta, Inc.
InventorJohn R. FRANK
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method of processing a geotext query, said method involving: receiving a first free-text query string from a user; and decomposing the first free-text query into a non-geographic query and a geographic query, wherein the non-geographic query is a second free-text query string derived from the first free-text query string and the geographic query is a geographical location description.
Claims4
1-39. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- submitting a geotext query to a search engine;
- receiving search results from the search engine, said search results including a document that is responsive to the geotext query;
- displaying a map on a visual display device;
- displaying a marker on the map that corresponds to the document and is located at a geographical location on the map to which the document refers, wherein the marker presents information about the document;
- and
- enabling a user to select at least some of said information from the marker and add an annotation to the map that is associated with said geographical location irrespective of whether said marker or any other markers are shown on the displayed map, said annotation including said selected information.
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