Patent ID: 8630803

Claim:
An apparatus for trip planning, comprising: a touch screen, receiving a touch operation of a user; an electronic map display module, displaying an electronic map and at least one POI on the electronic map; a trip plan panel display module, displaying a trip plan panel comprising a plurality of waypoint blocks on the touch screen, and inputting the POI in one of the waypoint blocks according to a touch operation of dragging between the POI and the trip plan panel received by the touch screen, wherein the waypoint blocks are displayed in the trip plan panel according to an arrangement sequence, and according to a touch operation of dragging from one of the waypoint blocks to a location on the electronic map received by the touch screen, the trip plan panel display module inputs the location on the electronic map to the dragged waypoint block to serve as the POI; and a path plan module, planning paths between the POIs in the waypoint blocks according to the arrangement sequence of the waypoint blocks, and the trip plan panel display module assembling the paths to establish a trip plan.