Patent ID: 7203597

Claim:
A terminal apparatus that is configured to be included with a mobile unit and that acquires content for presentation of information associated with a position, the terminal apparatus comprising: a content list storage that stores a content list including at least one pair of an address of the content and an associated position, the address uniquely specifying a storage location on a network; a position detector that detects a position of the mobile unit; a specifier which defines a content acquisition region including an area located in a traveling direction of the mobile unit based on the detected position of the mobile unit, and identifies at least one position included in the content list which is located in the content acquisition region; a content requester that requests content associated with the at least one identified position using the content address associated with the identified position via a wireless communication to a content server; a content acquirer that acquires the requested content from the content server; and a presenter that presents the acquired content.