Patent ID: 8756008

Claim:
A navigation apparatus having a satellite positioning section for calculating a present position, the apparatus comprising: a route setting section for searching for a route to a destination based on map data and setting a detected route as a recommended route; and a GPS-disabled guiding section configured to provide alternate guidance to a user while the satellite positioning section is incapable of calculating a present position, the GPS-disabled guiding section configured to: set as a focus point, a candidate point through which a vehicle first passes when traveling along the recommended route; display point guide information for guiding the focus point among one or more candidate points as a route change point, wherein the point guide information includes information representing characteristics of shapes of the road section or characteristics of a landscape visible from the road section, between a reference position and the focus point; wherein the location corresponding to the characteristic of shape of the road section or the visible landscape is set as the reference position by manual operation of the user when the user recognizes the characteristic of shape or the visible landscape.