A road surface feature information collecting apparatus, comprising: a vehicle position information acquiring device adapted to acquire vehicle position information that represents the current position of a vehicle; an image information acquiring device adapted to acquire road surface image information for the vicinity of the vehicle; an image recognition device adapted to carry out image recognition processing on recognition target objects that are included in the road surface image information; a recognition result storing device adapted to store recognition information that represents the recognition result of the recognition target objects obtained by the image recognition device in association with information for the recognition position of the recognition target objects based on the vehicle position information; characterized by a learned feature extracting device adapted to extract as learned features recognition target objects that can be repeatedly recognized by image recognition based on a plurality of sets of recognition information related to the same place that has been stored in the recognition result storing device due to the road surface image information for the same place being recognized a plurality of times by the image recognition device, wherein the recognition information is characteristic amounts including at least one of an amount of noise extracted by a high pass filter from the road surface image information and a number of edges extracted by providing Gaussian filter processing on the road surface image information that are included in the road surface image information, and the recognition target object is at least one of noise and edges that are included in the road surface image information. a vehicle position information acquiring device adapted to acquire vehicle position information that represents the current position of a vehicle; an image information acquiring device adapted to acquire road surface image information for the vicinity of the vehicle; an image recognition device adapted to carry out image recognition processing on recognition target objects that are included in the road surface image information; a recognition result storing device adapted to store recognition information that represents the recognition result of the recognition target objects obtained by the image recognition device in association with information for the recognition position of the recognition target objects based on the vehicle position information; characterized by a learned feature extracting device adapted to extract as learned features recognition target objects that can be repeatedly recognized by image recognition based on a plurality of sets of recognition information related to the same place that has been stored in the recognition result storing device due to the road surface image information for the same place being recognized a plurality of times by the image recognition device, wherein the recognition information is characteristic amounts including at least one of an amount of noise extracted by a high pass filter from the road surface image information and a number of edges extracted by providing Gaussian filter processing on the road surface image information that are included in the road surface image information, and the recognition target object is at least one of noise and edges that are included in the road surface image information.