| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a navigator apparatus by which a target name is input, by which a route is searched from a present position or a starting place and by which the route guidance is provided by a method in with a desired city name is selected out of city names to be output from a control means and the selected city name is input. SOLUTION: A program is read out, from an information storage device 3, into a CPU 40 at a central processor 4, and a route guidance program is started. A target name such as a place name, an installation name or the like, a telephone number, an address, a registration point, a street name, a city name and the like are used, and a destination is set. Then, a present position is detected by a present-position detecting device 2, a peripheral map is displayed by making use of the present position as the center, and a route up to the destination from the present position is searched. When the route is decided, the present position is tracked by the present-position detecting device 2, and the route is guided and displayed repeatedly until the destination is searched. When, a detour setting operation is input before the destination is reached. A search area is set, the route is searched again in the search area, and the route guidance is made repeatedly until the destination is searched. |
