Patent ID: 8880332

Claim:
A method for providing navigation information to a user, the method comprising: presenting a ticket with unique identification identifying a specific user to one terminal of a plurality of terminals distributed throughout an area visited by the user, each terminal being located in a kiosk and operating in kiosk mode; storing the unique identification in a user information application that is accessed through an application server; inputting a name of a destination at the terminal presented with the ticket; storing the destination in the user information application; inputting a travel problem into a topography application, the topography application having geographic locations of all kiosks in the area and an elevation of each of the kiosks, the topography application being configured to associate the name of a place with a geographic location; computing in a navigation system with a computer processing system a route according to an optimization criterion for scenery that will be viewed by the user along the route from the terminal presented with the ticket to the destination, wherein the route takes into account the travel problem input into the topography application and the topography application provides information for computing the route optimized for scenery along the route; and presenting the route as the navigation information to the specific user.