| | 1 | <?xml version="1.0"?> |
| | 2 | <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" |
| | 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 | ]> |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | <section id="recommeds"> |
| | 9 | <title>Recommended Programs</title> |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | <formalpara><title>gpsbabel</title> |
| | 12 | <para>&appname; uses &gpsbabel; for several important functions, such as:</para> |
| | 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> |
| | 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> |
| | 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"/>. |
| | 26 | </para> |
| | 27 | <para>&appname; will need to be restarted to use the new &gpsbabel; location preference.</para> |
| | 28 | |
| | 29 | <formalpara><title>unbuffer</title> |
| | 30 | <para>&appname; uses unbuffer command to optimize conversion calls.</para> |
| | 31 | </formalpara> |
| | 32 | <para>This mainly applies to <trademark>Unix</trademark> like systems when invoking &gpsbabel; commands.</para> |
| | 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> |
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