Navit

Navit is a free and open-source, modular, touch screen friendly, car navigation system with GPS tracking, realtime routing engine and support for various vector map formats. It features both a 2D and 3D view of map data.[3]

Navit
Developer(s)Michael Farmbauer, Martin Schaller, Alexander Atanasov, Pierre Grandin and others
Initial release21 November 2005 (2005-11-21)[1]
Stable release
0.5.5 / 8 August 2020 (2020-08-08)
Repositorygithub.com/navit-gps/navit
Written inC, C++
Available in39 languages[2]
TypeSatellite navigation
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.navit-project.org

Navit supports a variety of operating systems and hardware platforms including Windows,[4] Windows CE, Linux, macOS,[5] Android,[6] iPhone,[7][8] and Palm webOS.[9] The Win CE version can run on a GPS device like tomtom or cartrek.

Navit can be used with several sources of map data, notably OpenStreetMap and Garmin maps.[10]

See also

References

  1. Navit, CeBIT Open Source 2011 - Project Presentation Navit, By Amber Graner, The first publishment was in december 2005, but the project existed privately already for about 3 years.
  2. Launchpad translations of Navit
  3. Open-Source-Navigation mit Navit:Richtungweisend, von Thomas Haase, Markus Feilner Erschienen im Linux-Magazin 2010/07, interview in Linux Magazin Online (German)
  4. Navit on Windows
  5. Navit on MacOS
  6. Navit on Android
  7. Navit on iOS (iPhone)
  8. Open Source Turn by Turn iPhone App using OpenStreetMap - Navit, by optikalefx, 06-30-2009, Mp3car
  9. Navit on Palm webOS
  10. Navit Maps
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