by editing as user /home/user/.navit/navit.xml you get the same results (running navit as user) as you were editing as root /usr/share/navit/navit.xml. you can download pre-built maps bin files here: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ and learn more about navit.xml here: http://wiki.navit-project.org/index....figuring_Navit be careful about the format of center of the map coordinates, read carefully navit.xml about that.