Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searches

摘要: Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes computer system to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from user, including free-text query and domain identifier, identifier identifying in metric vector space; obtaining set of document-location tuples corpus documents, each tuple satisfying location having associated cartographic display attributes; displaying visual representation identified by average spatial scale; selecting subset based attributes scale domain; plurality indicators representing selected tuples.