Patent ID: 7848876

Claim:
A method for determining a traffic route for a vehicle comprising: receiving initial location information defining an initial location of the vehicle; receiving input defining a destination for the vehicle; sending information, to an off-vehicle information provider, defining the initial location of the vehicle and destination for the vehicle; receiving traffic route information including at least one text message indicative of a traffic route from the initial location to the destination, the traffic route information lacking geographic coordinate data defining the traffic route; determining a way-point along the traffic route based on the traffic route information by parsing words of the at least one text message; sending way-point information, to an off-vehicle information provider, defining the way-point along the traffic route, the way-point information lacking geographic coordinate data defining the way-point; receiving way-point geographic coordinate information defining the way-point; associating the traffic route information with the way-point geographic coordinate information; determining a distance between a current location of the vehicle and the way-point; and informing a user of the distance between the current location of the vehicle and the way-point.