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A navigation system includes an operation input unit, a temporary storage unit, and a control unit that executes processing concerning the navigation operation using the information for applications. The control unit sets analysis priority levels for analysis processing performed for each of the kinds of the map information and sets generation priority levels for each of the kinds of the information for applications, performs, with at least one kind of map information as an analysis target, the analysis processing generates the information for applications in order according to the generation priority levels based on results of the analysis processing respectively obtained for the map information set as the analysis target, saves the generated information for applications in the temporary storage unit, and executes processing concerning the navigation operation using the information for applications saved in the temporary storage unit.