| 摘要 |
There is provided a technology for retrieving tourist information based on a user location which makes it easy for the user to retrieve accurate tourist information which she/she truly requires. A user's current location on the map is measured and the plurality of reference areas are then retrieved from a memory storing a plurality of reference areas RA, RB, RC and RD allocated to a plurality of target objects A, B, C and D on the map which are correlated with a plurality of tourist information items, using the measured current location as a search key. Then, a reference area including the measured current location is extracted from the plurality of reference areas and tourist information, from the plurality of tourist information items which corresponds to the extracted reference area is provided to the user. Each reference area is defined by a location, shape and size of area reflecting the attributes of corresponding target objects on the map. |
