System for providing driving directions with visual cues

A system adapted to provide navigational instructions, the system comprising:

• a communication port adapted to:
• receive signals representing location information including a starting point and a destination point;
• and
• transmit the navigational instructions;
• a storage device having stored therein geographical information, photographic information, route processing instructions and photograph matching instructions, wherein:
• the photographic information includes representations of photographs of actual geographic locations and photograph orientation information;
• for each representation of a photograph, the photographic information includes coordinates of a location shown in the representation of the photograph and a direction of view of the representation of the photograph;
• and
• the photograph matching instructions include instructions adapted to match coordinates of a representation of a particular photograph with a corresponding geographic location;
• and
• a processor connected to the storage device and adapted to:
• communicate with the storage device;
• process the location information and the geographical information in accordance with the route processing instructions to obtain a route for travel to the destination point;
• match geographic locations along the route with the coordinates of representations of photographs thereof in accordance with the photograph matching instructions;
• and
• orient the representations of photographs based on the route for travel, thereby determining the navigational instructions for traveling the route including oriented representations of photographs,
• wherein said processor outputs the navigational instructions using said communication port, thereby providing a user with directions for traveling the route and an oriented sequence of photographic representations of the geographic locations along the route.