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Navit is an open source (GPL) car navigation software for Linux systems.
Navit will display your position on a 2D map, or as a 3D visualization from GPS sensor data.
Navit is also capable of providing precise route calculation, touch screen functionality and supports Points of Interest (POI), which can be extended via an easy to use plugin system.
Unlike other navigation systems, Navit maps are dynamically generated in real time from vector data.
See the Press Room to find out who's talking about NavIt, and what they think of it!
If you don't know where to start, try the Interactive help.
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News
January, 19th, 2008 : Navit has been quoted as the picture of the week on OpenStreetMaps! Thank you guys!
Announcement
Navit 0.0.4 "Valentine's gift" is out!
This release contains a lot of bugfixes and other small improvements.
If you want, have a look at the roadmap status for 0.1.0 : http://trac.navit-project.org/milestone/version%200.0.4
Navit 0.0.3 "Christmas gift" is out!
Major improvements over 0.0.2 :
- OpenStreetMap support has been greatly enhanced (navit now uses a binfile driver)
- garmin support has been greatly enhanced (but routing is still being worked on)
- some improvements for using navit under OpenMoko (thanks to the OM contributors!)
- map interaction in GTK : you can now 'slide' the map by pressing mouse and dragging map
And of course, a lot of bugfixes and other small improvements.
See the full list for more details.
If you want, have a look at the roadmap status for 0.0.4 : http://trac.navit-project.org/milestone/version%200.0.4
Getting started
You can have a look at the screenshots gallery. If you are a navit user, share your screenshots with us!
If you don't know where to start, try the Interactive help.
Otherwise, pick your choice :
- Dependencies
- Configuring NavIt
- Translations
- FAQ
- Contacts
- NavIt on Windows
- NavIt on MacOS
- Navit on n770/n800
- Navit on Ångström Linux
- Download NavIt
Maps
The best navigation system is useless without maps. Read more about it:
- OpenStreetMaps
- European maps
- Garmin maps
- US/Tiger maps
- Other maps or how you could display POI, tracks or routes from other sources
You can download pre-compiled (ready-to-use) maps using the OpenStreetMap-data from: http://maps.navit-project.org/
Going further
- Navit's binary map driver
- The development Roadmap
- The On Screen Display
- Skinning the CEGUI GUI
- A word about the Hardware
- The old Status and Todo
- some notes about Navit and OSM
- embed navit in your own application
- To use navit as a virtual appliance go here
In case of problems
Please see Troubleshooting.
Participate in the project!
If you want to see who's behind navit: Navit project members and contributors.
We've started to document Navit using Doxygen : http://wiki.navit-project.org/doxygen/
API documentation
Here is the doc about the various APIs:
Guidelines
- Programming guidelines
- CVS guidelines if you have cvs access. If you want it, contact us.
I am not a developer, how can I contribute?
There is a lot of things which still need to be done, help and ideas are welcomed too.
About Navit project:
About OSM binary map in Navit :
- item_def.h Just add a new Item missing on the osm binary map in Navit
The new Items could be downloaded by using src/script/wiki2def
Do not forget to insert items in you navit.xml and also provide xpm-Files for the Icons in src/xpm - enter this xpm's in /src/xpm/Makefile.am
To have your modifications pushed in cvs, see Contacts. Thank you!
About the wiki
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
