Patent ID: 8306743

Claim:
A route guiding apparatus comprising: a route searching unit for searching for a route from a place of departure to a destination; a current position detecting unit for detecting a current position; a route guidance unit for determining a guidance intersection which is located on the route searched for by said route searching unit; a subtraction distance calculating unit for calculating a distance from an entrance of the guidance intersection determined by said route guidance unit to a center of the guidance intersection according to a width of a road going out of the guidance intersection in a direction along the route and adding a change to the calculated distance based on a country or state code of the road or based on the type of road where the guidance intersection exits to define the distance as a subtraction distance; a notification distance calculating unit for subtracting the subtraction distance calculated by said subtraction distance calculating unit from a distance from the current position detected by said current position detecting unit to the center of the guidance intersection determined by said route guidance unit to calculate a notification distance to be notified; and a display unit for displaying the notification distance calculated by said notification distance calculating unit.