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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2001
Bernd Hessing, Holle, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for navigating from a starting point, especially from an instantaneous location, to a destination, a routing algorithm of a navigational system for a means of locomotion, particularly a motor vehicle, ship, or airplane, calculating a route from the instantaneous location to the destination via nodal points stored in a digital map. In the case in which at least one of the nodal points of the route to be calculated is not contained in an internal digital map stored internally in the navigational system, the part of the route which exclusively includes nodal points of the internal digital map is calculated by an internal routing algorithm on the basis of the internal digital map as an internally calculated route portion, and the part of the route which does not include nodal points stored in the internal digital map is calculated by an external routing algorithm as an externally calculated route portion on the basis of a digital map stored externally with respect to the navigational system, transitional nodal points from the externally calculated route to the internally calculated route and/or vice versa being determined.