Navit is a

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, 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. Navit supports a variety of operating systems and hardware platforms including

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, Android,

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, and

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. 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

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and

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maps.

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