Patent ID: 8467952
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A memory medium storing a map generating program executed by a computer, the program comprising the steps of: obtaining map information for generating a map which includes a start point and a destination point; obtaining route information indicative of at least one road selected as a route from the start point to the destination point, from among roads indicated in the map; obtaining, on the basis of the obtained route information, a direction of movement on each of the at least one road selected as the route, from the start point toward the destination point; obtaining character information corresponding to rows of characters disposed in the map; the step of selecting at least one character row as a character row of a first kind from among the rows of characters corresponding to the obtained character information, on the basis of positional relationships between the rows of characters and each of the at least one road selected as the route, each of the at least one character row of the first kind being indicated in the map in a variable indication manner, while each of at least one character row of a second kind which is other than the at least one character row of the first kind being indicated in the map in a non-variable indication manner; determining, when a plurality of roads having at least two different directions of movement are selected as the route on the basis of the obtained route information, the indication manner of each of the character rows of the first kind selected on the basis of the positional relationships of the character rows with the respective roads, according to the at least two different directions of movement on the respective roads, such that the indication manner of the character rows of the first kind having one of the at least two different directions is different from the indication manner of the character rows of the first kind having another of the at least two different directions; and generating the map on the basis of the obtained map information and the obtained character information, such that the character rows of the first kind are indicated in the map in the determined manners.