Method for operating a navigation system of a vehicle, especially a motor vehicle, and corresponding navigation system

A method for operating a navigation system for a vehicle, the method comprising:

• determining data concerning geographic positions of the vehicle by a position-finding system;
• transmitting the data to an electronic data processing device having access to a database and a digital road map;
• determining a position of the vehicle on the digital road map based on the data;
• and
• providing route guidance instructions to a driver of the vehicle at least one of acoustically and visually;
• wherein at least one route selected by the driver is entered into the navigation system and stored at its route memory, wherein a monitoring mode of the navigation system is activatable optionally for the at least one route selected by the driver and stored, whereby traffic information relevant to the at least one route is monitored, and wherein, when activating the monitoring mode, the driver indicates to the navigation system that the vehicle is on the at least one route selected by the driver and stored.