Patent ID: 7440851

Claim:
A method for making destination guidance instructions available to a user, comprising: preparing at least one first direction indication proceeding from a current position of the user to a first destination-guidance waypoint that is close to the user and about which the user possesses map data or route data; preparing at least one second direction indication from the current position to a destination or to a second destination-guidance waypoint that is closer to the destination than the first destination-guidance waypoint; outputting the prepared direction indications simultaneously; and preparing, for the prepared at least two direction indications, at least one distance indication, corresponding to one of the at least two direction indications; and outputting to the user the at least one distance indication, together with the at least two direction indications; wherein one of the first direction indication and the second direction indication is depicted in a foreground on a display, and wherein a shortest of the at least two direction indications is always presented to the user in the foreground on the display.