Map information display device for navigation apparatus

摘要

In a map information display device (4,12), the map data extracting unit (4) extracts character data corresponding to characters from map data corresponding to the map, and the map data converting unit (4) converts the map data including no character data to a bird's-eye-view map data. The character data converting unit (4) selects designated character data from the extracted character data and converts the character data other than the designated character data to bird's-eye-view character data. Then, the combining unit (4) combines the bird's-eye-view character data, the bird's-eye-view map data and the designated character data to produce combined bird's-eye-view data. Then, the display unit (12) displays the map of bird's-eye-view using the combined bird's-eye-view data.