Patent ID: 8010279

Claim:
A contents server which generates guide contents for a tour from site information, information from a plurality of information sources and contents information, said contents server comprising: information acquisition means for acquiring information specifying a combination of the information from the plurality of information sources and the contents information; site information focusing means for narrowing down the site information using the acquired information; guide contents generating means for generating the guide contents using the narrowed down site information; guide contents output means for outputting the generated guide contents on a plurality of image layers superimposed on each other, each image layer corresponding to an information source among the plurality of information sources; preview customizing means for previewing and customizing the guide contents on the basis of user information entered by a user, wherein the user information includes information created by the user and entered at least one of before or during the tour, and wherein the user created information includes time of entry information and is integrated into the guide contents, whereby the user can preview and customize said tour; and album creation means for generating an album page incorporating record information including the user created information affixed to a map corresponding to an area the user moved to during said tour, based on user action history information representative of a route followed by the user during the tour, in response to a request after the tour, wherein the user action history information includes user position information identifying user positions from which the route is defined and time information identifying times at which the user was located at the respective positions defining the route, wherein the album creation means is for controlling display of, on a same screen display, the map and, independent from and without being affixed to the map, user created information entered by the user during the tour while the user was located within the area to which the map corresponds and selectable from the screen display to affix to the map, and wherein, in response to selection from the screen display of the user created information entered by the user during the tour while the user was located within the area to which the map corresponds, the selected user created information is automatically displayed on the screen display affixed to a position on the map based on the user position and the corresponding time information from the user action history and the time of entry of the selected user created information.