Patent ID: 7774107

Claim:
A system for simulating conditions along a route traveled by a mobile platform comprising: a source of user input; a navigation control module that generates navigation data that includes at least a continuous subportion of a route for the mobile platform based upon at least the user input; a conditions control module that determines at least one condition associated with the at least continuous subportion of the route, the at least one condition including at least a lighting condition associated with the travel of the mobile platform along the at least continuous subportion of the route; a graphical user interface (GUI) manager module that populates a graphical user interface (GUI) to display the at least continuous subportion of the route and the at least one condition associated with the at least continuous subportion of the route, and that receives the user input; and wherein the at least continuous subportion of the route displayed on the GUI is an aerial, overhead view of the at least continuous subportion of the route along with the at least one condition superimposed on the aerial overhead view at one or more locations along the at least continuous subportion of the route.