Revision as of 18:31, 19 January 2017

Navit is highly modular and customizable. This page aims to point out the most common options which a first-time user may want to change - power users may want to consult the full list of options. It is also possible to edit the navit.xml file for your Android device under Windows and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu derivates) with a third party application called NavitConfigurator.

Setting up Navit is done by editing a configuration file called "navit.xml".Editing this file in a text editor is simple, it's just a plain text XML file, that can be edited with any editor. Just remember to turn off 'save UTF8 byte mark' in Preferences or navit may complain very much on the first byte of the file.
The file is splitted into sections within a hierarchy:

<config>
  <plugins></plugins>
  <navit>
    <osd></osd>
    <vehicle></vehicle>
    <vehicleprofile></vehicleprofile>
    <mapset></mapset>
    <layout></layout>
  </navit>
</config>

Navit comes preshipped with an default navit.xml that is stored at various locations (depending on your system):

• in ~/.navit/navit.xml : e.g : /home/myusername/.navit/navit.xml (This is probably to best place to customize your settings!)
• in /usr/share/navit or /etc/navit

Navit will apply settings in the following order:

• in the current directory (used on Windows)
• location supplied as first argument on the command line, e.g.: navit /home/myusername/navittestconfig.xml (Used mainly for development)
• in the current directory as navit.xml.local (Used mainly for development)

In any case, you have to adapt settings to your system! This includes especially GPS, map provider and vehicle: Basic configuration

Configurable Sections