Patent ID: 6658351
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
A road map data delivering apparatus comprising:a road map data storing section in which a plurality of road map data are stored; a road map data delivering section that, in response to a request to deliver the road map data to a movable body issued from the same movable body, retrieves one of the road map data which corresponds to the delivery requested road map data and delivers the retrieved road map data to the same movable body; a delivery history storing section in which a delivery history of each road map data through the road map data delivering section is stored; and a charging process section that executes a charging process for the delivery of the road map data carried out by the road map data delivering section in such a manner as to refer to the delivery history of the delivered road map data stored in the delivery history storing section and to charge an amount of money discounted from a predetermined amount of money at a rate of discount varied in accordance with a degree of an overlap in a case where the road map data presently delivered to the road map data delivery requested movable body includes a portion on which the road map data delivered to the same movable body in the past is overlapped.