GENERATING AUTOMATED TOURS OF GEOGRAPHIC-LOCATION RELATED FEATURES

摘要

Tours may be automatically generated that move between geographically-relevant imagery associated with a set of features at different geographic locations. By way of example, in response to searching for businesses or landmarks falling within a particular category and geographic area, a user may be taken on a visual tour of each business or landmark that was found as a result of the search.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method of generating an automated tour comprising:
identifying, by one or more computing devices, a set of a plurality of features where each feature of the set of features is a visual object associated with a geographic location that is different from the geographic locations associated with other features of the set; identifying, by the one or more computing devices and for each given feature of the set of features, a sequence of imagery that captures the given feature, where the imagery of the sequence is identified at least in part on how well the imagery captures the given feature; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a sequence of the features of the set of features, where the order of the sequence of features is based on the location of each feature of the set of features and a relative ranking of the features in the set of features; and providing, by the one or more computing devices and for display, in the order of and for each feature in the determined sequence of features, a sequence of imagery that captures the feature, the location of the feature on a map and, excluding the last feature of the sequence of features, a pan of the map to the location of the next feature in the sequence of features.