Viking GPS data editor and analyzer Reviews

Tried various linux solutions with no success until I discovered Viking. Excellent GPS data interface. The maps just drop into place, creating and modifying waypoints is simple and intuitive, and the export formats work flawlessly on my Garmin. Much kudos for solid work.

Have an old eTrex Vista Hcx that I love and used MapSource with it on Windows for years even though both have been long since discontinued. Recently replaced Windows with Ubuntu 20.04 desktop, and was wondering if I'd be able to replace that old functionality in linux. Was really thinking that I wouldn't be able to. Well, after an all night long session of installing libs and compiling viking from source, (had to disable mapnix as it said it couldn't find the includes even though they are there), got viking and gpsbabel working! Even downloaded all of my tracks and waypoints from the GPS unit! I'm so happy I could cry. Thank you, and goodbye Windows.

Wonderful and useful map software. Love it. One GUI thing I'd like to see improved is reorder of layers when stacking. Dragging them right now has no effect.

Easy to use Can display the route and a map from openstreetmap. And one second later we can see our route on a satellite view. Great. Using Viking GPS to prepare my ways for ATV/quad. Vikinkg GPS helps me a lot to see where path are sometime not yet defined on Openstreetmap and sometime the opposite : the path we should not use because crossing the middle of a farm. Great developement. I like it very much.

Nice program to make bicycle tracks and transfer them to a map.

This program is one of my favourites GPX editors/viewers along with SF GPX Editor.

Operations such as converting waypoints/trackpoints into a route/track need to be integrated with the GUI. For example, multiselect a bunch of waypoints and convert to a route/track. Joining routes/tracks would also be good.

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Nice program, startup is really fast ! Viking is based on GTK, i already have installed that. Only 1 issue: when i install it drags in gpsbabel and another 300 MB of Qt5 and related deps. Strange to have Qt5 as requirement for a GTK program ?

Looks great and downloaded my Garmin tracks in a flash - but couldn't read my device directly and (more critically for me) the app fell over after 10minutes use! uninstalled! So it's free... but unstable. (The point would be to replace Garmin basecamp but while I don't like it at least it stays up...)

The Viking GPS data editor is a great tool for managing GPS data. I've been organizing botanical collecting using known collection sites, using coordinates from herbarium collections of hundreds of species of plants. The one difficulty I've had is configuring real-time GPS on my MacBook Pro that runs Mavericks. As far as I can tell, this is impossible. The only potential fix I've heard of is to install a virtual machine running a linux flavor. I haven't gotten that far yet.

Great product!

Summary: Powerful, loaded with features, but steep learning curve. The good: Very powerful, loaded with features; Can display map; Support Open Street Maps; Layers. The bad: No undo feature yet; Steep learning curve.

Great for seeing where I've been on group-lead XC cycling!

A very useful tool to provide the ability to edit waypoints and view your GPS usage. Easy to edit tracks for uploading to Open Street Maps to remove some certain references like where I live. I use it at work to generate images of data gathered by GPS. I have not used all the features in the current release yet.

Thanks all You Rock!

I use this every single day! I really liked it.

Very good tool to plan routes and to analyze the tracks after wards.

Excellent work.

Lacks an "Undo" button, can't move groups of points between layers. Other than this, it's very nice code.

Planned a transalp with it, works great!

It is nice to edit GPX files with.

simple and usefull!

<3 it !!!

Very usefull software.