MAP DATA GENERATING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHERE MAP DATA GENERATING AND PROCESSING PROGRAMS IS RECORDED

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide map data not requiring a CPU with high arithmetic capacity and mass memory, with a map data generating device for generating the map data which connects two points on the map. SOLUTION: A server device 10 at a service center receives a request for providing 'Teach Me the Way Service' inputted with the place names of departure and destination from a terminal device 11a registered and connected to a network N. Then, based on the map data composed of visual images stored in a map data base memory in a storage device 12, a route from the departure place up to the destination is searched for, and also the searched route on the visual image is converted into the map data composed combining text data such as a plus mark '+', a hyphen mark '-', an upright bar mark '|', and is transmitted back to the terminal device 11a which requested for the service as mail data.