NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND MAPPING SYSTEM USING PERSONAL CONTACTS

摘要

A navigation apparatus and method which uses personal contact-based route guidance. A route guidance generator receives information about personal contacts including a location, a description and a rating value for route guidance and generates route guidance suitable for navigation applications. The personal contacts based guidance can be combined with normal street and maneuver based guidance.

主权项

1. A navigation apparatus comprising:
a route guidance information generator, operable on a computer processor, configured to receive a plurality of personal contacts that comprise one or more of: a location information, a description, and a route guidance criteria; and further configured to generate and store, in a computer memory, route guidance information for each personal contact to be used for route guidance for routes that traverse near each personal contact.