Navit’s User Manual

This document is the official User Manual for Navit, the OpenSource vector based navigation software.

Navit is a open source (GPL) car navigation system with routing engine.

It’s modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It’s even possible to use multiple maps at a time.

The user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map.

The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors.

The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you.

Navit currently speaks over 70 languages!

Navit is highly customizable, from map layouts and on-screen display to the details of the routing engine.

Navit's developer documentation

• Changelog
  • Unreleased
  • v0.5.6 - 2021-03-06
  • v0.5.5 - 2020-08-08
  • v0.5.4 - 2020-01-18
  • v0.5.3 - 2018-08-31
  • v0.5.2 - 2018-08-30
  • v0.5.1 - 2018-04-19
  • v0.5.0 - 2015-12-31
  • v0.5.0-rc2 - 2015-09-02
  • v0.5.0-rc1 - 2015-08-08
• Programming guidelines
  • Enforced guidelines via CircleCI
  • Coding Style
• Commit guidelines
  • ‘Core’ components changes
  • Commit per feature
  • Format of the commit log
• Linux Development
  • Build dependencies
  • Taking care of dependencies
• Android Development
  • Developing for Android
  • Testing an alternative build
• MacOS Development
• WARNING: These instructions are currently unmaintained. Please feel free to submit a PR if you manage to build navit on Mac OSX.
  • What you will need
  • Installation instruction
  • Speech
  • Using xcode
  • Something went wrong?
• WinCE Development
  • Building using arm-mingw32ce
  • Remote Debugging
  • Building using arm-cegcc
  • Building Navit
• Windows Development
  • Compiling using CMake
  • Compiling / debugging using CodeBlocks & mingw compiler
  • Compiling and running using cygwin
  • Compiling a native binary using mingw
  • TroubleShooting
  • Cross-Compiling win32 exe using Linux Ubuntu 14.04.1
  • Windows Mobile/Windows CE