NAVIGATION APPARATUS

An issue to be solved by the present invention is to provide a navigation apparatus capable of improving operability when a display scale is changed by pinch-in/out. [0002] A navigation apparatus (1) includes: an own vehicle position calculation unit (41), a scroll processing unit (45), and a map drawing unit (42) that display a map image of an own vehicle position and its surroundings as a current-location window at a current-location scale, and when swiping of the screen by a user's finger is detected using a touch panel (22), display a map image of which display range is moved in response to this swipe operation as a scroll window at a scroll scale; a scale setting unit (44) that changes the current-location scale and the scroll scale in response to pinch-in/out; and a scale determination unit (46) that, when display of the current-location window is instructed by the user and a predetermined condition is satisfied, updates the current-location scale using the scroll scale, and in other cases, maintains the previous current-location scale.