Patent ID: 8818727

Claim:
A method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location, the method comprising: receiving, through a user interface of the personal navigation device, instructions from the user to create navigation instructions to the destination location; determining, with routing software executed by a processor of the personal navigation device, if the destination location is in an urban area, wherein determining that the destination location is in the urban area is performed by determining that a number of streets within a predetermined radius of the destination location is greater than a threshold value; querying, with the user interface of the personal navigation device, whether the user requires parking only when the destination location is in the urban area, and selecting a parking area when the user requests parking; and after determining that the destination location is located in the urban area and the parking area has been selected, planning, with the routing software executed by the processor of the personal navigation device, a route to the destination location using the parking area as an intermediate destination.