Patent ID: 8742955

Claim:
A map display apparatus comprising: an information recording unit which records image information including an image signal representing a picked-up image and position information representing an image-pickup position where the image signal is generated, and landmark information used to display landmark signs in a map image; a display controller which adds an image-pickup-position mark in the image-pickup position represented by the image information to the map image, which adds landmark signs in portions represented by the landmark information to the map image, and which selectively reduces the number of types of landmark sign to be added to the map image in a number of predetermined ranges; and a user interface unit which enables a user to select a desired one or ones of the types of landmarks signs to be displayed in each predetermined range and which enables the user to select a desired one or ones of the types of landmarks signs to be not displayed in each said predetermined range, in which the number of predetermined ranges includes a first predetermined range which is determined based on the image-pickup position, a second predetermined range determined based on a moving route in the map image, and a third predetermined range determined based on a current position in the map image, and in which each of the first predetermined range, the second predetermined range, and the third predetermined range is different from each other.