INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information providing method whereby a mobile communication terminal can receive and display map information required by a user while suppressing a data amount of the map information received by the mobile communication terminal and to provide an information providing apparatus and the mobile communication terminal. SOLUTION: The information providing apparatus 30 stores in advance map data including at least roads on which the map data are based for map display in the mobile communication terminal 10 and a plurality of kinds of additional display data overlappingly displayable at prescribed positions on a map displayed by the map data. The information providing apparatus 30 receives a map data acquisition request for requesting map data whose district is designated from the mobile communication terminal 10, and transmits the map data in the designated district to the mobile communication terminal 10. Then the information providing apparatus 30 receives an additional display data acquisition request for requesting additional display data whose kind is designated from the mobile communication terminal 10 and transmits the additional display data of the designated kind in the district to the mobile communication terminal 10. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT