Patent Document ID: 8073617
Application ID: 12003024
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A map information generating system, comprising: a memory that stores map information including a road network; and a controller that: gathers traveling information including a plurality of loci, each locus representing a vehicle traveling along a road that is not included in the stored road network; separates the loci within the gathered traveling information into groups, each group related to a same road, the loci being separated into the groups by the controller: determining positional coordinates at predetermined distance intervals along each locus within the gathered traveling information; calculating an average separation distance between respective positional coordinates as a separation distance between each locus in the gathered traveling information; and grouping together the loci in the gathered traveling information in which the calculated separation distance is within a predetermined distance; and generates new road information relating to a single new road for each group of loci.