I have just installed Viking (abbrev. V), twice actually -- 1.6.1 as an Ubuntu .deb and 1.6.2 as a .tar.bz2. How do I find out which installation is the currentt default? Both $ viking --version and Help > About show a version of 1.6, which is not very helpful.
But the main problem is that I am a hovice at mapping and find Viking quite hard to get to grips with. So please excuse me for asking a lot of beginner questions. (Can't seem to get the correct combination of keywords to google for information.)
I have the Viking user-guide PDF, but it is more of a reference than a tutorial, with very few examples of CLI commands or GUI paths. Can anybody put me onto a tutorial site or guide to get me going, particularly the recommended use of layers to separate user-added routes and waypoints from the autogenerated results from
My main interest is recording cycling tracks with GEO Track and My Tracks, then converting them to routes with all the dead-ends, backtracks, and false starts removed, with minimal waypoint (?) so that I can load into Google My Maps and thence to my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for navigation.
Some issues:
Older My Tracks tracks are invisible in V, except for the start and end points.
More recent GEO Track tracks appear okay in V as linked trackpoints.
When I first converted the .kml track file to a .kml route file, there were separate waypoints directly above the points on the route line.
Moving the waypoint did not move the route, but left it as it was with the route point now visible.
Route points could not be selected to correct the route line.
Regards,
Hedley
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Anonymous
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2017-03-28
"which viking" will show you where the executable is located.
I can't point you at any user resources other than the documentation. I found that quite useful, especially the section on how to create a track, add elevation, etc.
regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia
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I have just installed Viking (abbrev. V), twice actually -- 1.6.1 as an Ubuntu .deb and 1.6.2 as a .tar.bz2. How do I find out which installation is the currentt default? Both $ viking --version and Help > About show a version of 1.6, which is not very helpful.
But the main problem is that I am a hovice at mapping and find Viking quite hard to get to grips with. So please excuse me for asking a lot of beginner questions. (Can't seem to get the correct combination of keywords to google for information.)
I have the Viking user-guide PDF, but it is more of a reference than a tutorial, with very few examples of CLI commands or GUI paths. Can anybody put me onto a tutorial site or guide to get me going, particularly the recommended use of layers to separate user-added routes and waypoints from the autogenerated results from
My main interest is recording cycling tracks with GEO Track and My Tracks, then converting them to routes with all the dead-ends, backtracks, and false starts removed, with minimal waypoint (?) so that I can load into Google My Maps and thence to my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 for navigation.
Some issues:
Regards,
Hedley
"which viking" will show you where the executable is located.
I can't point you at any user resources other than the documentation. I found that quite useful, especially the section on how to create a track, add elevation, etc.
regards
Stephen Meatheringham
Canberra, Australia