Patent ID: 7535379

Claim:
A server that is capable of communicating with a vehicle, the server comprising: a meteorological information storage device that stores meteorological information; an area segment data storage device that stores area segment data indicating area segments, the area segments being obtained by dividing an area into predetermined units; a distribution area determination device that specifies a range of the area segment for which the meteorological information is to be distributed, based on the meteorological information being a certain type of meteorological information; an area meteorological data generation device that generates area meteorological data related to the meteorological information corresponding to the range specified by the distribution area determination device; a vehicle-related information reception device that receives at least one of positional information and route information of the vehicle; a distribution data selection device that selects the area meteorological data of the area segment corresponding to the information based on the reception by the vehicle-related information reception device; and distribution device that distributes the area meteorological data selected by the distribution data selection device, wherein the area meteorological data generation device reads a relating table to generate area meteorological data to be distributed, and wherein the relating table relates area segments to types of meteorological information and describes constitution percentages of each type of meteorological information.