Patent ID: 7565239

Claim:
A method of finding information along a calculated route to a destination with use of a navigation system, comprising the following steps of: building one or more zones to be traversed in travelling on the calculated route to the destination based on map data; displaying a list of zones on the calculated route to prompt a user to select a zone; displaying a list of types of information to prompt the user to select a type of information to be searched; searching information along the calculated route within the selected zone within a predetermined search range of the calculated route; and displaying the information of the selected type within the selected zone resulted from the search; wherein said zones are cities through which the calculated route runs and the user selects one or more cities from the list of zones, and the cities are arranged in the order of the distance from a current vehicle position along the route; and wherein said step of displaying the list of types of information includes a step of displaying both a distance key and a city key on a screen at the same time to prompt the user to select a range or searching the type or information either by the range of a city along the calculated route or a distance from the current vehicle position.