A travel route stray discriminating method of a mobile object in
navigation system is disclosed in which discrimination of travel route
deviation is temporarily withheld even if the mobile object has deviated
from the travel route on a busy road such as a cross-road, and a warning
that the mobile object has deviated from the travel route is issued if it
is accurately discriminated that the mobile object has strayed from the
travel route. The method comprises: a controller searching for a travel
route of a mobile object, discriminating a current location of the mobile
object if the mobile object travels along the searched travel route and
displaying on a display unit by matching the discriminated current
location of the mobile object to a stored map data, and initially
discriminating the deviation of the mobile object from the travel route
by a link on which the mobile object travels, a travel angle of the
mobile object and whether the mobile object has deviated from the link;
the controller secondly and thirdly discriminating absence and presence
of a guidance subject point based on the travel distance of the mobile
object; and the controller controlling a sound signal generating unit and
issuing a warning that the mobile object has deviated from travel route
if the mobile object is thirdly discriminated to have deviated from the
travel route.