Patent ID: 8117041
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of providing guidance to a destination with a computing system comprising: receiving input from a user that indicates a municipality that is nearby a desired actual destination; calculating, via the computing system, a first route to the municipality that is nearby the desired actual destination; providing guidance to the user to follow the first route to the municipality that is nearby the desired actual destination; determining additional routes to each of a plurality of roads that cross a boundary into an affinity domain associated with the municipality that is nearby the desired actual destination; while on route to the municipality that is nearby the desired actual destination and prior to reaching the point along the first route at which any of the additional routes diverge from the route to the municipality that is nearby the desired actual destination, receiving input from the user that indicates an exact location of the desired actual destination; calculating a second route to the desired actual destination; and providing guidance to the user to follow the second route to the desired actual destination.