Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a transit map including a group of transit lines. The mapping application receives a request to display a transit route in the transit map. The mapping application also, in response to the received request, displays the transit route by modifying portions of transit lines along the route to emphasize the portions of the transit lines while modifying other transit lines not along the route to de-emphasize the transit lines not along the route.

An information processing system includes an information acquisitor, a screen information generator, and a display controller. The information acquisitor acquires, from history information including at least information indicating a moving route between electric facilities uncharted on a map and utilized in past, information indicating a moving route utilized at the time of moving from a first electric facility to a second electric facility based on information indicating the first electric facility out of a plurality of electric facilities and information indicating the second electric facility connected to the first electric facility by a connection line. The screen information generator generates display screen information to generate a display screen based on the information acquired by the information acquisitor and indicating the moving route. The display controller displays the display screen on a display of the information processing terminal based on the display screen information generated by the screen information generator.

Tour guide contents stored in a tour guide apparatus carried by a user at a tour destination are provided with points of interest information and map data. This information includes latitude and longitude information for the site of each point of interest, and information on the providers of the information and the categories of information. The latitude and longitude information is provided for each site in relation to map data. By matching these pieces of latitude and longitude information to the map data, points of interest information can be laid out on the map and displayed. This makes it possible to select interesting site information to be displayed on the map based on the information provider, for example, points of interest information provided by provider A for restaurants and another set of information provided by provider B for hotels.