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摘要

In a navigation system according to the present invention, a server (400) acquires current position information, customer specifying information, and service request information from a terminal unit (300) via a network (200). In response to this service request information, the acquired customer specifying information is authenticated by verifying the acquired customer specifying information to customer specifying information including the customer specifying information previously stored and specifying the customer. Further in response to the service request information, the server acquires travel-use information to be used when traveling from a current position based on the current position information, and generates customer-oriented information to be provided to the customer based on the current position information, travel-use information, and map information previously stored. The server processes the customer-oriented information generated for the customer and makes settlement for an information service fee to charge when providing the customer-oriented information previously stored based on customer specifying information corresponding to the authenticated customer identifying information.