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Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data.
You can import, export and plot tracks, routes and waypoints, show OpenStreetMap, Terraserver, Bing Aerial and other maps in it.
Download Wikipedia points, OSM Traces or Your Personal OSM Traces for an area on the map.
Make new tracks, routes and waypoints and geotag images.
See real-time GPS position (but not on Windows as no GPSD support on this platform).
And much, much more... If you're having a hard time visualizing it: check out the screenshots, screencasts and then download it to try it out.
It is written in C with the GTK+ 2 toolkit, available for Linux, other POSIX operating systems, and Windows, and is licensed under the GNU GPLv2+.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
If you use any of the OSM tile sources, then please ensure you are following the Tile Usage Policy by setting your tile checking period to 7 days: Viking->Edit->Preferences->Tile Age = 604800 Unfortunately due to an implementation misunderstanding, this is set by default to 30 seconds. (In all releases earlier than Version-1.2.2)
Latest Release (Recommended + Supported)
* 2013-04-08: Latest Release Version-1.4.1 - Bug Fixes to Version-1.4
Executive Summary of Changes in 1.4
Many New Features including:
- Support for GPX Route type including transfer to/from GPS Devices.
- Add ability to Acquire My OSM Traces and ability to choose any subset of the available traces.
- GPS Upload from a track.
- Better Track colour options.
- More TrackWaypoint layer options: draw direction arrows, arrow size, trackpoint size, waypoint text size
- Display Waypoint Icons in the layers panel treeview.
- Restored Route Finding via Google Services. [Was disabled in 1.3.2 due to change in formats supported]
- Display map tile source and cached file information in a dialog for a position.
- Quick zoom level change from the statusbar by clicking on the zoom level to select another level.
- In the Zoom Tool mode: can select an area to zoom in on (via holding shift key + drag mouse).
- Mouse Zooming in/out maintains the position focus on the mouse pointer location.
- (Use the keys Ctrl+Shift and mouse zoom to maintain the centered map location).
- Add support of a Map type for a local On Disk OSM Tile Format.
- Allow generation of large pixel sized images.
Older Release (no longer supported)
- 2010-12-14: Latest Revision Version-1.0.2
- 2010-11-17: The Viking team is proud to announce the 1st stable release Version-1.0 after 7 years of work by many contributors.
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News
- News
- Releases: the present and past releases of the Viking application
- Roadmap (Long Term)
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Roadmap 1.3 -
Roadmap 1.4 - Roadmap 1.5
Help
- Screenshots, Screencasts
- Users Manual - Version 1.4 PDF 1.4 Help Online
- FAQ, Tutorials
- Data services (including Maps used by Viking; Includes how to go about extending your set-up for new services)
- Support requests
- Bug reports
- Mailing list archive: Viking-devel - Recommended contact method - send email to mailto:viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and/or Subscribe
- Mailing list archive: Viking-debian - very little traffic
- IRC channel #viking on irc.freenode.net - however seems not to be used much.
Wiki Updating
- Currently to edit this Wiki you need permission - contact the Viking mailing list with your SourceForge login ID requesting "editor" status. Then one can login to the Wiki site with your SourceForge ID to make changes.
