1. A navigation system to determine a route to a destination, comprising: a display to present variable information; a touch-activated user input device for which user touch coordinates on the input device are directly associated with coordinates of the display; a controller to display a map presentation on the display as a first operator control area and to display at least one second operator control area on the display, wherein a contact-based dragging movement using the user input device in connection with coordinates in the first operator control area causes a first function selected from the group consisting of movement of the map presentation, rotation of the map presentation and inclination of the map presentation and wherein a contact-based dragging movement using the user input device in connection with coordinates in the second operator control area causes a second function different from the first function and selected from the group consisting of movement of the map presentation, rotation of the map presentation and inclination of the map presentation, wherein the second operator control area is oriented horizontally with respect to a horizontally oriented map presentation.