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1 | <?xml version="1.0"?> |
2 | <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" | |
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3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ |
4 | <!ENTITY appname "Viking"> | |
5 | <!ENTITY gpsbabel "<program><ulink url='http://gpsbabel.org/'>GPSBabel</ulink></program>"> | |
6 | ]> | |
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7 | |
8 | <section id="recommeds"> | |
9 | <title>Recommended Programs</title> | |
10 | ||
11 | <formalpara><title>gpsbabel</title> | |
afa0898d | 12 | <para>&appname; uses &gpsbabel; for several important functions, such as:</para> |
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13 | </formalpara> |
14 | <itemizedlist> | |
15 | <listitem><para>Importing Files from many formats (including KML)</para></listitem> | |
16 | <listitem><para>Exporting Files to various formats</para></listitem> | |
17 | <listitem><para>Transfer Data to/from GPS Devices via serial connections</para></listitem> | |
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18 | </itemizedlist> |
19 | <para>Thus these will not be available if the program can not be found.</para> | |
20 | <para>For <trademark>Unix</trademark> like systems this will search the system path to find the program, as it is typically installed via the System's package manager.</para> | |
21 | <para> | |
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22 | From &appname; 1.6 onwards &gpsbabel; is not deployed automatically on <trademark>Windows</trademark> systems, |
23 | as it is made an optional install component (using the official &gpsbabel; installation program). | |
24 | If &gpsbabel; is not installed in a typical <trademark>Windows</trademark> location that &appname; can find, | |
25 | then the &gpsbabel; preference can be set to specify the exact location. See <xref linkend="prefs_external"/>. | |
f2e987af | 26 | </para> |
afa0898d | 27 | <para>&appname; will need to be restarted to use the new &gpsbabel; location preference.</para> |
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28 | |
29 | <formalpara><title>unbuffer</title> | |
30 | <para>&appname; uses unbuffer command to optimize conversion calls.</para> | |
31 | </formalpara> | |
afa0898d | 32 | <para>This mainly applies to <trademark>Unix</trademark> like systems when invoking &gpsbabel; commands.</para> |
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33 | |
34 | <formalpara><title>gpsd (not available for <trademark>Windows</trademark>)</title> | |
35 | <para>&appname; can use <ulink url="http://www.catb.org/gpsd/">gpsd</ulink> to get the current location.</para> | |
36 | </formalpara> | |
37 | ||
38 | <formalpara><title>togpx</title> | |
39 | <para>&appname; will use <ulink url="https://github.com/tyrasd/togpx">togpx</ulink> to open GeoJSON files if the program is available on the system.</para> | |
40 | </formalpara> | |
41 | ||
42 | <formalpara><title>togeojson</title> | |
43 | <para>&appname; will use <ulink url="https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson">togeojson</ulink> to export to GeoJSON files if the program is available on the system.</para> | |
44 | </formalpara> | |
45 | ||
46 | </section> |