Viking

Viking is a GPS data editor and topo viewer.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Viking team
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://viking.sf.net/

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Viking Description

Viking is a GPS data editor and topo viewer. Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Terraserver maps under it, add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different things, etc.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 GPL. Here are some key features of "Viking": · Viking aims to be easy to use yet powerful to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. Some of the things you can now use Viking for are: Analyzing OHV and hiking trips, understanding where you went and how far you were from something. · Making waypoints, tracks, etc. for someplace you've never been before or don't have GPS data for but Terraserver maps exist for it · Making a track to follow to easily get someplace · Making maps with coordinate lines · Grouping multiple trips to one place together, seeing where you have been and yet to go, etc. · Analyzing speed at different places (to some degree), adding waypoints where you forgot to mark one but did slow down or stop. · Downloading and storing Terraserver maps on your hard drive and looking at them later Other things which Viking will be able to do in the future include: · Editing tracks and trackpoints, joining and splitting up tracks · Show your current position on the Topo or Ortho map (for use on a laptop) · Better analyzing speed and altitude information · Preparing tracks and waypoints to be made into Garmin maps What's New in This Release: · Viking 0.9.9 is mainly a fix release. But this release also brings some improves around memory and usability.


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