Patent ID: 7729855

Claim:
A method for displaying driving directions having multiple maneuvers, the method comprising: accessing maneuver information for a route from an origin to a destination, the maneuver information including: a first maneuver associated with a first road, and a second maneuver associated with a second road; presenting, as a constituent part of the driving directions, the first maneuver along with textual information associated with the first road; presenting, as a constituent part of the driving directions, the second maneuver along with textual information associated with the second road; determining, for one or more maneuvers, whether or not to present at least one graphical road-identifying symbol that has substantially the same appearance as a road sign as visually associated with the one or more maneuvers for which the determination is made; and presenting, based on the determination of whether or not to present at least one graphical road-identifying symbol, a graphical road-identifying symbol that has substantially the same appearance as a road sign as visually associated with the first maneuver and presenting, for the second maneuver, text without a graphical road-identifying symbol.