Patent ID: 7844395

Claim:
A map display apparatus that displays a map, comprising: a display device; a touch panel disposed over a screen at the display device; and a control device that controls display at the display device with a signal input from the touch panel, wherein: the control device displays at the display device a map and a plurality of buttons respectively designating a plurality of scaling factors that have smaller values than a scaling factor of the map and correspond to wider-area maps than the map, makes a decision as to whether or not the touch panel has been pressed at a position corresponding to one of the plurality of buttons, makes a decision as to whether or not a finger having pressed the touch panel at the position corresponding to one of the plurality of buttons respectively designating the plurality of scaling factors has been moved to a display position of the map while pressing the touch panel, and displays a wide-area map at a scaling factor designated to the one of the plurality of buttons pressed by the finger, over a part of an area where the map is displayed while sustaining the scaling factor of the map unchanged if the finger having pressed the touch panel is judged to have been moved to the display position of the map.