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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.

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Navit
DevelopersMichael Farmbauer, Martin Schaller, Alexander Atanasov, Pierre Grandin and others
ReleaseNovember 21, 2005 (2005-11-21)1
Stable release
0.5.7 / 8 February 2026 (2026-02-08)
Written inC, C++
Available in39 languages2
TypeSatellite navigation
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.navit-project.org
Repositorygithub.com/navit-gps/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 supports a variety of operating systems and hardware platforms including Windows,4 Windows CE, Linux, macOS,5 Android,6 iPhone,78 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

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References

References

  1. Navit Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine, 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". Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  5. "Navit on MacOS". Archived from the original on 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  6. "Navit on Android". Archived from the original on 2017-05-03. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  7. "Navit on iOS (iPhone)". Archived from the original on 2017-06-03. Retrieved 2014-04-16.
  8. Open Source Turn by Turn iPhone App using OpenStreetMap - Navit Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, by optikalefx, 06-30-2009, Mp3car
  9. Navit on Palm webOS
  10. "Navit Maps". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
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