1 Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can
2 import, plot and create tracks, routes and waypoints, show OSM
3 and other maps, generate maps (using Mapnik),
4 see real-time GPS position, Geotag Images,
5 control items, upload/download OSM Traces and more.
6 It is written mainly in C with some C++ and uses the GTK+2 toolkit.
8 Website: http://viking.sf.net/
14 You can download tarball of latest released version at
15 http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/files
17 You can also retrieve the latest development version on the official
19 $ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/viking/code viking
27 On debian Sid, following packages must be installed before building:
28 # sudo apt install gtk-doc-tools gnome-doc-utils libpng-dev libgtk-3-dev libgexiv2-dev libgps-dev libbz2-dev libmagic-dev
29 nettle-dev libzip-dev libicu-dev
31 The following packages are needed (they are included by default in Debian Sid, but not in other distributions). They
32 must be installed too:
33 # sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libgtk2.0-dev
35 The following packages are also used, but they can be disabled with configure option, if desired:
36 # sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev nettle-dev libmapnik-dev
41 If you downloaded Viking from Git, you have to:
44 Next, or if you downloaded a tarball, you have to:
48 Check output of "./configure --help" for configuration options. In
49 particular, it is possible to disable some features, like
50 --disable-google in order to disable any Google stuff.
52 If you wish to install Viking, you have to (as root):
55 For detailed explanation on the install on Unix like systems,
61 See test/ subdirectory for examples.
66 See doc/ and help/ subdirectories for documentation.
67 You can also access user manual via Help menu entry.