Patent ID: 7039520

Claim:
A method for operating a navigation system for a vehicle, comprising: determining, using a positioning system, geographic position data of the vehicle; transmitting the geographic position data to an electronic data processing device having access to a database and a digital road map; determining a location of the vehicle on the digital road map in accordance with the geographic position data; outputting a destination guidance instruction to a driver of the vehicle at least one of visually and acoustically; and loading into the navigation system additional information relevant for a navigation as a program including a navlet, the navlet being usable by at least one of the driver and another person in the vehicle, wherein: at least one specific function is executed by the navlet, the at least one specific function is at least one of a function directed toward the user requirement and a function corresponding to a default setting, and the navlet includes a geometric notification function that is called up when a predefined geometric criterion is met.