Method for determining a preferred route between a staring point and a destination, wherein the method has the following steps: capturing an intermediate destination input, referenced to a digital map, by a user, wherein the intermediate destination input represents a requirement of the user after travelling through a preferred region, depicted in the digital map, between the starting point and the destination; assigning the intermediate destination input to a road network area, on which the preferred region is based, in the digital map; and using at least one route section, contained in the road network area, in a route determination between the starting point and the destination in order to determine the preferred route; wherein the capture step involves a sliding movement by at least one finger of the user being captured by means of an input device, characterized in that a line, produced from a shape of the sliding movement, in the digital map is captured as an intermediate destination input, wherein the line runs transversely with respect to an originally ascertained route between the starting point and the destination, and one of two sections of a contour of a closed geometric figure around a point of intersection between the originally ascertained route and the line denotes the preferred region in the digital map, wherein the two sections are determined by a first point of intersection and a second point of intersection between the originally ascertained route and the contour of the closed geometric figure, and in which the assignment step involves a detail from the digital map, which detail surrounds one of the two sections at a predetermined distance, being assigned to the road network area on which the preferred region is based, and wherein the capture step involves the line representing a vector and that section that an end area of the vector crosses being selected as the one of two sections of the closed geometric figure. capturing an intermediate destination input, referenced to a digital map, by a user, wherein the intermediate destination input represents a requirement of the user after travelling through a preferred region, depicted in the digital map, between the starting point and the destination; assigning the intermediate destination input to a road network area, on which the preferred region is based, in the digital map; and using at least one route section, contained in the road network area, in a route determination between the starting point and the destination in order to determine the preferred route; wherein the capture step involves a sliding movement by at least one finger of the user being captured by means of an input device, characterized in that a line, produced from a shape of the sliding movement, in the digital map is captured as an intermediate destination input, wherein the line runs transversely with respect to an originally ascertained route between the starting point and the destination, and one of two sections of a contour of a closed geometric figure around a point of intersection between the originally ascertained route and the line denotes the preferred region in the digital map, wherein the two sections are determined by a first point of intersection and a second point of intersection between the originally ascertained route and the contour of the closed geometric figure, and in which the assignment step involves a detail from the digital map, which detail surrounds one of the two sections at a predetermined distance, being assigned to the road network area on which the preferred region is based, and wherein the capture step involves the line representing a vector and that section that an end area of the vector crosses being selected as the one of two sections of the closed geometric figure.