Patent ID: 9097540
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A map display apparatus comprising: road network information in which integrated traffic signal information is provided in an intersection configured of a plurality of nodes having attribute information of traffic signal available; a display unit which performs map displaying using map image data generated based on the road network information; and a signal displaying controller which performs switching whether a traffic signal icon is displayed at a node of the map image data or the traffic signal icon is displayed at a position to display the integrated traffic signal information according to a display scale of the map displaying, wherein the signal displaying controller displays the traffic signal icon at the node of the map image data when the display scale is equal to or higher than a first predetermined value, and displays the traffic signal icon at the position to display the integrated traffic signal information when the display scale is lower than the first predetermined value, the signal displaying controller changes the first predetermined value in accordance with at least one of a distance of an intra-intersection link in the intersection, a number of lines in the intersection, or a number of the traffic signals in the intersection, the distance of the intra-intersection link and the number of lines in the intersection that are included in the map image data, and the signal displaying controller sets the first predetermined value to be relatively low such that the traffic signal icon is displayed at the node of the map image data when the distance of the intra-intersection link is longer than a second predetermined value, or the number of the lines is bigger than a third predetermined value.