Patent ID: 6897861

Claim:
A map image display device comprising: a display unit applied with a command input to provide a display of a map image in response thereto; a memory unit storing regional surface areas of particular areas in the map image and particular designations indicative of the particular areas in a correlated relationship; a standard surface area setting unit dividing a surface area of an entire area indicated in the map image into n (n is an integer) equal divisions, when providing a display of the map image, to provide a resulting value that is determined to be a standard surface area; a selecting unit retrieving the regional surface areas of the areas, involved in the map image to be displayed and indicative of the particular designations, from the memory unit and selecting the particular designations of n pieces of the areas whose surface areas are closer to the standard surface area; and a display control unit compelling the n pieces of the particular designations, selected with the selecting unit, to be displayed on the map image at appropriate locations thereof as icons, indicative of an index of the command input in a superimposed relationship.