KristianKarl-zz/viking

Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data (including GPX and KML files). You can import and plot tracks, routes and waypoints, show OpenStreetMaps (OSM), Bing Aerial and other maps, generate Mapnik maps, geotag images, make new tracks, routes and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc. It is written mostly in C with the GTK+ 2 toolkit and some C++.

Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can
import, plot and create tracks, routes and waypoints, show OSM
and other maps, generate maps (using Mapnik),
see real-time GPS position, Geotag Images,
control items, upload/download OSM Traces and more.
It is written mainly in C with some C++ and uses the GTK+2 toolkit.

Website: http://viking.sf.net/


Obtaining Viking
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You can download tarball of latest released version at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/files

You can also retrieve the latest development version on the official
Git repository:
  $ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/viking/code viking

Installing Viking
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Dependencies
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On debian Sid, following packages must be installed before building:
  # sudo apt install gtk-doc-tools  gnome-doc-utils libpng-dev libgtk-3-dev libgexiv2-dev libgps-dev libbz2-dev libmagic-dev
nettle-dev libzip-dev libicu-dev

The following packages are needed (they are included by default in Debian Sid, but not in other distributions). They
must be installed too:
  # sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtk2.0-dev

The following packages are also used, but they can be disabled with configure option, if desired:
  # sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev nettle-dev libmapnik-dev

Actual Build
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If you downloaded Viking from Git, you have to:
  $ ./autogen.sh

Next, or if you downloaded a tarball, you have to:
  $ ./configure
  $ make

Check output of "./configure --help" for configuration options.  In
particular, it is possible to disable some features, like
--disable-google in order to disable any Google stuff.

If you wish to install Viking, you have to (as root):
  # make install

For detailed explanation on the install on Unix like systems,
see the INSTALL file.

Examples
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See test/ subdirectory for examples.

Documentation
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See doc/ and help/ subdirectories for documentation.
You can also access user manual via Help menu entry.