NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH COMPLEX MANEUVER INSTRUCTION

A vehicle navigation system provides a complex maneuver instruction view which displays multiple maneuver instructions concatenated together. If a relative distance between two of upcoming maneuvers is less than a predetermined distance, and no intervening roads fall within the predetermined distance the complex maneuver instruction view is displayed. As the user completes the first maneuver instruction, the maneuver instruction disappears and only the second maneuver instruction is displayed. In another disclosed embodiment, the navigation system displays a maneuver sequence notation adjacent each maneuver instruction along a recommended route to provide the user with a frame of reference as the user proceeds along a recommended route.