Patent ID: 7546202

Claim:
A navigation apparatus comprising: a control unit configured to: access a preset driving route including a group of consecutive route points that begin at a start route point and end at a destination route point, for each route point in the group of consecutive route points, identify a POI that is nearest to the route point and store the identified POI in association with the route point in a first storing unit, determine a current position of a moving object, after storing the identified POIs, select a current route point corresponding to the current position from among the group of route points, select, based on the current route point, the POI stored in the first storing unit that was identified as being nearest to the current route point, and access information associated with the POI identified as being nearest to the current route point; the first storing unit configured to store the identified POIs, and an output unit configured to output the accessed information associated with the POI identified as being nearest to the current route point.