Patent ID: 7680593

Claim:
A map data updating method comprising: retrieving from an information center a first-road updating data or a second-road updating data, the first-road updating data being a difference of all roads extracted from an all-road map data covering all roads and the second-road updating data being a difference of specific-type roads extracted from the all-road map data; and updating a map data of a map display system with retrieved updating data, wherein the updating includes checking whether the map data of the map display system has already been updated with the second-road updating data, when updating the map data by retrieving the first-road updating map data, executing a reverse-updating to return the map data updated with the second-road updating data to a previous map data, which is before being updated with the second-road updating data, when the map data has already been updated with the second-road updating map data, and updating the map data with the first-road updating data after the reverse-updating.