Patent ID: 8554479
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A navigation system for a motor vehicle, comprising: a navigation module for route planning; a display arrangement configured to display information including textual indications of location, additional items of information concerning the locations indicated by the textual indications of location, the additional items of information corresponding to respective destinations within the locations, each destination being assigned respective geographic coordinates, and the display arrangement being further configured to display route information; an input arrangement configured to receive a hierarchical, interactive destination input by, in conjunction with the display arrangement and conditional upon a selecting of an ambiguous textual indication of location by a user, which ambiguous textual indication identifies a plurality of destination alternatives, each of which is displayed with the same name: a memory in which each destination alternative is stored together with corresponding geographic coordinates, and the geographic coordinates of the selected destination alternative are used to determine the additional items of information that correspond to the selected destination alternative.