17. An apparatus for displaying driving directions, the apparatus being configured to: access data that describes at least one maneuver to be executed to traverse a route from an origin to a destination; select a portion of the accessed data that describes a particular maneuver, the maneuver including an action and a road; determine a road symbol to associate with the particular maneuver, the road symbol having substantially the same appearance as a road sign used to mark the road involved in the particular maneuver; determine an action symbol to associate with the particular maneuver, the action symbol having substantially the same appearance as a road sign used to identify the action to be performed to execute the particular maneuver; and present both the road symbol and the action symbol to describe the particular maneuver, such that the road symbol and the action symbol describe the particular maneuver.
25. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein the action symbol indicates a merge involved in the particular maneuver.