LOCATION DEPENDENT DISPLAY OF INFORMATION FOR GPS DEVICES

摘要

An invention for providing information to a GPS device by selecting location-specific information stored on a memory medium incorporated in the GPS device, or received by the GPS device from location-specific information broadcast by GPS satellites. The stored or broadcast location-specific information includes a GPS- advice type and a GPS-advice range. The CPU of the GPS device compares a computed or user-input GPS device location with the GPS-advice range included in the stored or broadcast location-specific information, and outputs the location-specific information to the GPS device if the GPS device location falls within the GPS-advice range included in the stored or broadcast location-specific information or advertising. The stored or broadcast location-specific information may also be searched and output by user input of any location or GPS-advice type. The stored or transmitted information may be advertising.