Abstract: Techniques are described for visualizing a roadway transition along an ascertained route course for a navigation device. In an implementation, the navigation device may include a display and a data processing device to identify a roadway transition from a first road onto a second road along an ascertained route course and present navigation information in a first and second operating mode. The second operating mode may include roadway transition visualization generated by dynamically superpositioning a first visualization layer, which may include road characteristics and location information, and a second visualization layer, which may include the ascertained route course along the identified roadway transition.

Abstract: A method for operating a navigation system includes the following steps: a) inputting a destination; b) deriving a starting point from the destination being input by utilizing a starting point derivation rule; c) calculating a route from the derived starting point to the destination being input, and d) outputting the simulated route preview from the derived starting point to the destination being input.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for navigating a vehicle along a route from a starting position or an instantaneous position to a destination. To this end, a route calculation device of a navigation device calculates a route course which is composed of a sequence of several coherent roads stored on a digital map of a memory device as a first route, and additionally calculates at least one alternative route by allocating a penalty attribute, especially increased average traveling time, road distance or the like, to at least one road of the first route. The method comprises at least the following steps of: S1: entering at least one destination; S2: calculating a first route; S3: allocating a penalty attribute to at least one road of the first route; S4: calculating at least one additional route; S7: representing the routes and selecting a route; S8: navigational guidance along the selected route.

Abstract: A device for ascertaining and displaying a route course for a transportation means comprises a road network. In particular, a navigation device having a data processing device, which is also used to ascertain the route course, and having display means, which are also used to visualize the ascertained route course. The device has at least temporary access to a road network database, and is set up in such a way that upon the existence of a correction of the current direction of the transportation means necessary for following the ascertained route course, which is caused by a transition of the route course from a first road onto a second road, in particular by a road intersection or by a road branch, an automatic change is performed between at least one first and one second operating mode. One of the at least two operating modes causes a visualization of the transition on the display means by at least partial dynamic superposition of at least two visualization layers.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for operating a navigation system including an input device for inputting operator commands and/or location information, particularly starting points and/or destinations, a road network database, a route calculating unit for calculating a planned route with consideration of the location information and the road network database, wherein the route leads from the starting point to the destination, a signal receiving-unit for receiving position signals, particularly GPS signals, a position finding unit that determines the current position from the position signals, and at least one optical and/or acoustical output device for optically and/or acoustically outputting a simulated route preview in a simulation mode, wherein the simulated route preview simulates the route navigation from a starting point to a destination, and wherein the method includes the following steps: a) inputting a destination; b) deriving a starting point from the destination being input by utilizing a st