User Geographic Area Familiarity Based Navigation Instructions

摘要

A familiarity that a user of a navigation device has with each of multiple geographic areas is determined. A route to a destination is identified and navigation instructions are provided to the user as he or she travels along the route. The instructions provided to the user along the route are generated based on the familiarity of the user with one or more geographic areas along the route. This generation of instructions can include delaying the start of providing instructions to the user, adapting the level of guidance provided to the user, adapting the aggressiveness of route recalculation, combinations thereof, and so forth.

主权项

1. A method implemented in a navigation device, the method comprising:
determining familiarity of a user of the navigation device with a geographic area; identifying a route to a destination, the route passing through at least part of the geographic area; generating navigation instructions regarding the route based on the familiarity of the user with the geographic area, the generating including changing multiple instructions regarding part of the route to a simplified instruction that specifies a location along the route; and presenting the generated instructions, the presenting including presenting the simplified instruction rather than the multiple instructions.