| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle mounted navigator, which can search the optimum path to the chain shop of the intended kind of the facility present in the specified range with the vehicle position as the center in consideration of the actual road conditions. SOLUTION: A navigation controller 10 indicates the map image around the perimeter of the vehicle position together with the vehicle position mark, the guiding path and the like on a display device 4 by using the map data stored in a CD-ROM 1. At the same time, the chain of oil companies to be registered among, e.g. gasoline stations among some kinds of facilities, is stored in a self-contained memory. Among the chain shops belonging to the registered chain, the optimum path to the chain shop, which can be reached in the shortest time from the vehicle position, is searched in consideration of the dynamic information of VICS (road-traffic-information communication system). The vehicle is guided on the path to this chain shop. |
