Patent ID: 6748316
Filing Date: 2004-06-08
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
A navigation plan creating apparatus for creating a navigation plan obtained by combining information for guidance, comprising:an associating unit to associate one of a range and a point on map information with guidance information; a route setting unit to set a specified route on the map information based on a point to be included in the specified route; and a creating unit to automatically create a navigation plan by extracting the guidance information associated with the specified route, the navigation plan being represented by a navigation script composed of an instruction sequence based on a predetermined specification, in which at least one of time and point information, together with the guidance information for the specified route according to at least one of a presentation time and a presentation point, are described using a set of combinations of a name which identifies a type of information and contents thereof that relate the guidance information to the at least one of time and point information.