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1 zoff99 2 NavIT
2     =====
3    
4 zoff99 3 test
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6 zoff99 2 Navit is a open source (GPL) car navigation system with routing engine.
7    
8     It's modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats
9     for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It's even possible to
10     use multiple maps at a time.
11    
12     The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch
13     screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed
14     on the map.
15    
16     The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from
17     NMEA GPS sensors.
18    
19     The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your
20     destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you.
21    
22     Navit currently speaks 27 languages :
23     - Brazilian Portuguese
24     - Bulgarian
25     - Chinese (Hong Kong)
26     - Czech
27     - Danish
28     - Dutch
29     - English
30     - Estonian
31     - Finnish
32     - French
33     - German
34     - Hebrew
35     - Hungarian
36     - Italian
37     - Japanese
38     - Norwegian Bokmal
39     - Polish
40     - Portuguese
41     - Romanian
42     - Russian
43     - Slovak
44     - Slovenian
45     - Spanish
46     - Swedish
47     - Telugu
48     - Thai
49     - Turkish
50    
51     You can help translating via our web based translation page :
52     http://translations.launchpad.net/navit/trunk/+pots/navit
53    
54    
55     For help or more information, please refer to the wiki :
56     http://wiki.navit-project.org
57    
58     If you don't know where to start, we recommend you to read the
59     Interactive Help : http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Interactive_help
60    
61    
62     Maps:
63     =====
64    
65     The best navigation system is useless without maps. Those three maps
66     are known to work:
67    
68     - OpenStreetMaps : display, routing, but street name search isn't complete
69     (see http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMaps )
70    
71     - Grosser Reiseplaner and compliant maps : full support
72     (see http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/European_maps )
73    
74     - Garmin maps : display, routing, search is being worked on
75     (see http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Garmin_maps )
76    
77    
78     GPS Support:
79     ============
80    
81     Navit read the current vehicle position :
82     - directly from a file
83     - from gpsd (local or remote)
84     - from udp server (friends tracking) (experimental)
85    
86    
87     Routing algorithm
88     =================
89    
90     NavIt uses a Dijkstra algorithm for routing. The routing starts at the
91     destination by assigning a value to each point directly connected to
92     destination point. The value represents the estimated time needed to
93     pass this distance.
94    
95     Now the point with the lowest value is choosen using the Fibonacci
96     heap and a value is assigned to connected points whos are
97     unevaluated or whos current value ist greater than the new one.
98    
99     The search is repeated until the origin is found.
100    
101     Once the origin is reached, all that needs to be done is to follow the
102     points with the lowest values to the destination.
103    

   
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