Patent ID: 6429813
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: G01C,G09B

Abstract:
In a navigation system that includes a geographic database that contains data that represent roads and cities in a geographic area, navigation programming that includes a route guidance function that uses the geographic database to provide instructions to a user of the navigation system for traveling to a destination selected by the user, and a user interface by which the user selects a location as the destination, an improvement comprising:a program run on said navigation system that uses a display screen of the navigation system to present to the user an alphabetical listing of all the cities represented by the data in the geographic database, presents the user with an instruction to select as preferred cities at least one of the cities presented to the user on the display screen, accepts selections by the user from said alphabetical listing of cities to designate as the preferred cities, stores the selections by the user in a memory of the navigation system, thereafter modifies operation of the user interface so that the user is presented with a list of the preferred cities when using the user interface to select a city in which a desired destination is located, accepts a selection by the user from said list of preferred cities to indicate the city in which the desired destination is located, and accepts from the user an indication of a specific address in the selected city as being the desired destination.