Patent ID: 8452531

Claim:
A route guiding system for guiding a user to select a movement path, the route guiding system comprising: a display module; a data storage module storing an electronic map and data concerning a plurality of scenic spots, the electronic map comprising data for a plurality of roads as well as a plurality of crossway points located between the plurality of roads, wherein each of those scenic spots is a general point of an interest or a spot where a scenery is visible; a positioning module providing position data of the user; a crossway point determining module determining whether the user is approaching to a first crossway point among the plurality of crossway points based on the position data and the electronic map, and in case the user is determined as getting near to the first crossway point, the crossway point determining module determines a plurality of second crossway points, each having a road connecting to the first crossway point; and a process module searching for the scenic spots located between the first crossway point and each of the second crossway points from the data storage module, and driving the display module to display the first crossway point, the roads between the first crossway point and each of the second crossway points as well as relevant information about the scenic spots found from the search results, wherein the process module records the position data, and calculates the movement speed of the user based on the recorded position data, the process module determines the number of scenic spots to be displayed based on the movement speed of the user, and guides the user to select the road between the first crossway point and one of the second crossway points as the movement path according to the number of scenic spots of each of the roads displayed, such that there is no need to preset a destination in the route guiding system.