Patent ID: 6934628

Claim:
A navigation apparatus comprising: a map information storage for electronically storing mapping information to show names of roads and facilities located in respective areas; a current position detector for detecting a current position of a vehicle; a position specification detector, operably connected to said map information storage and said current position detector, for specifying a second position on a map that is based on the mapping information; and a processor, comprising: a retrieval section for retrieving facilities of a plurality of categories adjacent to, but not at, the specified second position based on the mapping information; an extracting section for extracting retrieved facilities from the retrieval section and for sorting the retrieved facilities by distance to the specified second position; a facility display section for displaying the facilities extracted by said extracting section on the map based on the mapping information; a route setting section for calculating and setting a route from the current position to a destination by selecting any facility displayed on said facility display section as the destination based on the mapping information; and a guidance section for guiding the vehicle along the set route.