casper

You need to set your coordinates, look for the line that reads:
<navit center="add your coordinates here"


I used google earth to center on my house and got 2 sets of numbers (latitude and longitude) in the format: DD degrees MM min SS.SSSS seconds. However Navit needs the number in DD.dddd degrees * 100 = DDdd.dd degrees.

I don't have any knobhead files in my navit directory. Maybe you should uninstall and then re-install Navit and see if that helps.

Alternately, you could scroll the map to a location near you by hand, add a bookmark for use later. The look in the bookmark file (in /home/user/.navit directory) You should see a line for your bookmark starting mg: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx copy this part of the line into the center.txt file overwriting the other numbers in the file.

This should start the map at that location, if not, you have a hand bookmark to use.