Multi-scale navigational visualtization

A computer-implemented method that facilitates employing multi-scale imagery in navigation systems, comprising:

• obtaining navigation information, the navigation information includes at least one of a location or route;
• ascertaining a focal point based at least in part on the navigation information;
• and
• rendering image data in accordance with the navigation information and focal point.

A computer-implemented system that facilitates providing navigational guidance with multi-scale imagery, comprising:

• means for obtaining navigation information related to a route or location;
• means for acquiring context information corresponding to at least one of a user or vehicle;
• means for determining a focal point based at least in part on the navigation information and context information;
• means for aggregating image data related to the determined focal point, the image data includes at least one of satellite data, aerial data, street-side imagery data, two-dimensional geographic data, three dimensional geographic data, drawing data, video data, or ground-level imagery data;
• means for representing the image data as a immersive view, the immersive view is a computer displayable multi-scale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, the image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume;
• and
• means for manipulating the immersive view during route traversal.