Patent ID: 8725406

Claim:
A mobile communication terminal which is one of a handheld cellular phone, a PDA, and a PHS, and is moved between a plurality of areas, the mobile communication terminal comprising: a position-designating-section for designating at least one desired geographic position by a user prior to measuring a present position and issuing an instruction for map display, wherein the designated position is different from the present position of the terminal; a map-data-obtaining-section for requesting and obtaining prior to measuring the present position and issuing the instruction for map display, in a first location area different from the designated position, advance map data of the designated position via a communication network; a storage for storing prior to measuring the present position and issuing the instruction for map display the advance map data which is obtained in the first location area in advance of the terminal being in the designated position by the map-data-obtaining-section based on the designated position; an instruction-section for issuing the instruction for map display; a position-measurement-section for measuring the present position at which the instruction for map display has been issued from the instruction-section, and obtaining position data of the present position as present position data; a determination-section for determining whether the present position belongs to the first location area or a second location area other than the first location area; and a display-section for: displaying a map based on present map data, which is obtained by the map-data-obtaining-section and associated with the present position data, when the present position belongs to the first location area; and displaying a map based on the advance map data when the present position belongs to the second location area.