ISSUING OF A DIRECTION INSTRUCTION WITH A NAVIGATION DEVICE

In a method for outputting a navigation instruction with a navigation device (300) which has map data representing a plurality of road intersections, the following steps are carried out: Creating an optimized rule set for generating a navigation instruction by selecting a plurality of road intersections from the plurality of road intersections, assigning a target direction specification to each of the selected road intersections and executing an optimization procedure in which the target direction specifications and those map data which represent the selected road intersections are taken into account, Determining a route, Selecting a road intersection which is passed by the route from the plurality of road intersections, Determining an input segment and an output segment of the road intersection on the basis of the route, Generating a direction specification for the road intersection using the optimized rule set, wherein the input segment, the output segment and those map data which represent the road intersection are taken into account, Generating a navigation instruction for the road intersection based on the direction specification and Outputting the navigation instruction to a user of the navigation device (300).