Route guidance apparatus and method

A route guidance apparatus, comprising:

• a route receiver to receive at least two pieces of route information provided by at least two route providing servers;
• a data converting unit to analyze the at least two pieces of route information and convert the analyzed at least two pieces of route information to a common data format;
• a route classifier to classify the at least two converted pieces of route information into categories of similar routes based on a predetermined similarity level, and select one of the categories;
• a route analyzer to select, from the selected category, one of the at least two pieces of route information to be a node route for each section node;
• and
• a route generator to interconnect node routes selected for the respective section node, thereby generating an entire route.