Place guidance system
There are provided a positioning section for locating a current position, a travel history database for storing a history of a current position located by the positioning section and a history of a travel to an institution or the like actually visited by walking or so from at least one geographic point in the history, and a destination predicting section for predicting a destination on the basis of a history of using an institution actually visited by walking or so stored in the travel history database. This makes it possible to practically predict as a destination an institution actually visited by walking or so.
1. A place guidance system for providing information regarding a destination collected using at least two different forms of transportation, comprising:
positioning means for locating a current position of first mobile means;
travel history storing means for storing first history information about a travel of the first mobile means collected using a first form of transportation and located by the positioning means and second history information about a place visited by second mobile means collected using a second form of transportation, different from the first form of transportation, the second history information sharing at least one common geographic point with the first history information; and
destination predicting means for predicting athe destination based on the second history information stored in the travel history storing means.
2. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the destination predicting means predicts the destination on the basis of use frequency information of a place visited by the second mobile means.
3. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the second history information includes date-and-hour information of a visit by the second mobile means, the destination predicting means predicting the destination on the basis of a current position of the first mobile means located by the positioning means and date-and-hour information of a visit by the second mobile means.
4. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , further comprising required-time estimating means for estimating a required time for a travel by the first mobile means.
5. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , further comprising place-information storing means storing information about a place to visit by the second mobile means.
6. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , further comprising destination changing means for changing the destination predicted by the destination predicting means to another destination.
7. A place guidance system according to claim 6 , wherein the destination changing means changes the destination on the basis of use frequency information of a place visited by the second mobile means.
8. A place guidance system according to claim 6 , wherein the destination changing means changes the destination to another destination of a same sort as the destination first predicted.
9. A place guidance system according to claim 6 , further comprising destination setting means for manually setting the destination, the destination changing means changing the destination to another destination of a same sort as the destination manually set.
10. A place guidance system according to claim 7 , wherein the destination changing means changes the destination to another destination of a same sort as the destination first predicted.
11. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the second form of transportation of the second mobile means is walking.
12. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the second mobile means has positioning means for locating a current position of the second mobile means.
13. A place guidance system according to claim 6 , wherein the second form of transportation of the second mobile means is walking.
14. A place guidance system according to claim 6 , wherein the second mobile means has positioning means for locating a current position of the second mobile means.
15. A place guidance system according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second forms of transportation are by wheeled vehicle and by foot, respectively.