Digital maps displaying search-resulting points-of-interest in user delimited regions

A method of displaying points-of-interest (“POI”s) on a digital map, comprising:

• displaying a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device;
• receiving a first user input requesting suspending future processing of map control commands in subsequent user input;
• suspending the future processing of the map control commands;
• receiving a second set of user input, wherein the second set of user input defines a polygonal area within a presently displayed portion of the digital map;
• demarcating a region of the presently displayed portion of the digital map approximately matching the polygonal area defined by the second set of user input;
• computing a mathematical representation of the demarcated region, wherein the mathematical representation is based on longitude and latitude coordinates;
• receiving a third user input requesting un-suspending the future processing of the map control commands in subsequent user input;
• un-suspending the future processing of the map control commands;
• presenting a set of POIs, wherein each POI is represented by longitude and latitude coordinates;
• determining from the set of POIs a further subset of POIs, wherein the longitude and latitude coordinates of each of the POIs within the further subset of POIs is determined to be within the computed mathematical representation of the demarcated region;
• and
• displaying the subset of POIs on the digital map.

A method of displaying one or more points-of-interest (“POI”s) on a digital map, in conjunction with a free-hand, arbitrary, user-selected geographic region, comprising:

• presenting a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device, wherein the digital map comprises map tiles and corresponds to a geographic region;
• receiving free-hand user input selecting a portion of the digital map;
• delimiting the portion of the digital map selected by the user;
• determining geographic bounds of the portion of the digital map selected by the user;
• determining geographic coordinates of each POI among a plurality of POIs;
• determining one or more of the POIs from the plurality of POIs whose geographic coordinates are within the determined geographic bounds of the portion of the digital map selected by the user;
• and
• displaying a graphic for each of the determined one or more POIs, wherein
• the displayed graphic is displayed on the digital map at the geographic coordinates of each of the determined one or more POIs.