[OSGeo-Discuss] About "Interactive Map" patent application by Apple Inc.

[Arnie Shore]

<one's-own-horn-tooting>

Our Open Source CAD (Computer-Aided-Dispatching, at www.ticketscad.org
)  has included for several years now the feature in which given the
incident location, the application returns the list of response units,
ordered by proximity, with driving directions - Google generated -
from the nearest.  Directions for others are presented when any other
is clicked.

</one's-own-horn-tooting>

I plead guilty here of using some rather obvious freely-available
tools, sans any special innovation on our part.

I sincerely hope that Apple is dissuaded from pursuing this,  or is
shot down hard if they do proceed!

AS

On 12/21/13, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was tl;dr, but the quick scan I did seems to have two things that I
> haven't seen yet --
>
> 1. multi-touch: touch two points on a map and the best route is displayed
> immediately;
>
> 2. dim everything else thereby highlighting only what one wants to look at.
>
> There may be other new things in that long application.
>
> Interestingly #2 above reminds me of line graphs that Manish Agarwala from
> Berkeley had invented a long time ago that MapBlast incorporated in its
> routing algorithms. Then MapBlast was bought out by MS maps outfit (I think
> it was called MSN) and the feature existed for a while; and then that
> morphed into Bing and it even existed in Bing Labs for a while and then
> seems to have vanished. I used to love that line drawing feature. You could
> ask for a route as a line drawing, and it would only highlight the most
> important thing, the route, along with associated land marks, and dim
> everything else.
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Simon (SPDBA) Greener
> <simon at spatialdbadvisor.com> wrote:
>
>> While I am not sure of the features in osgeo software to which Venkatesh
>> refers, most of what appears in the patent application are natural
>> improvements to existing map functionality that is common to any mapping
>> software. I can't see Google letting this through without a fight. I agree
>> with Venkatesh that an objection be lodged.
>> Simon Greener
>>
>> On 21 Dec 2013 17:05, Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the "Interactive
>>> Map"
>>> patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1]
>>>
>>> describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Venka
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28715%2F771.CCLS.+AND+20131219.PD.%29&OS=ccl/715/771+and+pd/12/19/2013&RS=%28CCL/715/771+AND+PD/20131219%29
>>> ..
>
>
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