</figure>
</section>
+<section id="toolbar" xreflabel="Toolbar"><title>Toolbar</title>
+<para>The toolbar is an area for buttons that perform common actions.</para>
+<para>Some actions are modal, so the appropriate layer needs selected before these toolbar buttons are enabled. See <xref linkend="tools"/> more detail.</para>
+<para>The display of the toolbar is influenced by the <xref linkend="prefs_toolbar"/></para>
+<para>Right clicking on the toolbar and selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Customize</guimenu></menuchoice> allows jumping to the <xref linkend="prefs_toolbar_customize"/> directly.</para>
+</section>
+
<section id="projection" xreflabel="Projection"><title>Projections</title>
<para>
&appname; supports differents projections:
&appname; has several shortcut keys or key combinations for commands as listed in the main window along side the command.
</para>
<para>
-Some function keys follow standard GUI behaviour:
+By default some function keys follow standard GUI behaviour:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><keycap>F1</keycap> Help (view this manual)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><keycap>Ctrl+Left</keycap> Pan the viewport West</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><keycap>Ctrl+Keypad+</keycap> Zoom In</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><keycap>Ctrl+Keypad-</keycap> Zoom Out</para></listitem>
-<listitem><note><para>These work irrespective of the <xref linkend="tools"/> mode selected</para></note></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
+<important><para>These work irrespective of the <xref linkend="tools"/> mode selected</para></important>
For other combinations see the menu entry themselves.
</para>
</section>
+<section>
+<title>Keyboard Configuration</title>
+<para>Keyboard configuration is supported by the standard GTK+ way of changing shortcuts for menu entries.</para>
+<para>Hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to bind it to.</para>
+<para>To delete a keyboard assignment, press <keycap>Backspace</keycap> whilst over the menu entry.</para>
+<note>
+<para>
+ If the keyboard shortcut is already in use you will not receive any notification that new action replaces the old action.
+ This is probably why most distributions have this facility disabled by default.
+ Thus you will need to enable <emphasis>Editable menu accelerators</emphasis> for your system.
+ Check the Desktop Menu and Toolbar Control or other User Interface preferences for this setting.
+</para>
+</note>
+<note>
+<para>
+ For Windows systems this can be done by adding the line <emphasis>gtk-can-change-accels=1</emphasis> to <filename>%USERPROFILE%\.gtkrc-2.0</filename> (create the file if it does not exist).
+</para>
+</note>
+<para>From &app; 1.6+ the keyboard configuration is automatically loaded and saved between sessions in the <xref linkend="config_keys"/></para>
+</section>
+
<section><title>Tracks vs Routes</title>
<para>
In theory a route is path you are planning to follow and a track of where you have actually been. The GPX specification splits these into two separate catergories, although tracks contain everything route may have.
<listitem><para><xref linkend="Coordinate"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="Maps"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><xref linkend="GeoRef"/></para></listitem>
+<listitem><para><xref linkend="MapnikRendering"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
For each layer there are a few standard options:
</section><!-- End Agg -->
-<section id="GeoRef" xreflabel="GeoRef"><title>GeoRef Layer</title>
-<para>
-This layer allows one to use any image as a map. You will need to tell it how to align the map to a position in the world and the scale of map.
-</para>
-<section><title>Layer Operations</title>
-<section><title>Zoom to Fit Map</title>
-<para>
-Automatically set a zoom level to see the entire map coverage.
-</para>
-</section>
-
-<section><title>Goto Map Center</title>
-<para>
-Center the viewport on this map.
-</para>
-
-</section>
-<section><title>Export to World File</title>
-<para>
-Opens a file save dialog to save the scale and position information as a <ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file">World File</ulink>.
-</para>
-</section>
-</section>
+<xi:include href="georef_layer.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
-</section><!-- End GeoRef -->
+<xi:include href="mapnik_rendering_layer.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<section id="Coordinate" xreflabel="Coordinate"><title>Coordinate Layer</title>
<para>
</section>
-<section><title>Georef Map Layer Tools</title>
+<section id="georef_tools"><title>Georef Map Layer Tools</title>
<para>
You must have a <xref linkend="GeoRef"/> Map Layer selected to use these tools.
</para>
<para>This allows setting the specific location of GPSBabel.</para>
<para>&appname; will need to be restarted for this setting to take effect.</para>
</section>
+<section><title>Auto Read World Files</title>
+<para>If this is on, when a new image is selected for the GeoRef layer then the associated world file will be read to find the scale and positional properties.</para>
+<para>The associated file is based on filename patterns; e.g. if the image is <filename>filename.jpg</filename> - then the world file may be <filename>filename.jpgw</filename> or <filename>filename.jgw</filename></para>
+</section>
</section>
<section id="prefs_osm" xreflabel="OpenStreetMap Traces Preferences"><title>OpenStreetMap Traces</title>
</section>
</section>
+<section id="prefs_mapnik" xreflabel="Mapnik Preferences"><title>Mapnik</title>
+<note>
+<para>If any changes to these settings are made, you will need to restart &appname; to make them be applied.
+</para>
+</note>
+<section><title>Plugins Directory</title>
+<para>The location of Mapnik plugins. An attempt is made to automatically determine the initial value,
+ however if this is wrong or Mapnik is upgraded then the directory can be set here.</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Fonts Directory</title>
+<para>
+The location of fonts for use with Mapnik. Normally it is best to simply use the System's font directory.
+</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Recurse Fonts Directory</title>
+<para>Load fonts in any sub-directories of the main font directory.</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Rerender Timeout</title>
+<para>The time in hours before any tile is rerendered.</para>
+<para>This is useful in case the underlying source data for the tiles changes (e.g. OSM data is continually evovling).
+ &appname; normally has no way of knowing when the data has changed, so this simple timeout method is provided to maintain consistency of the tile images.</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>CartoCSS</title>
+<para>This allows setting the specific location of the <emphasis>carto</emphasis> executable.</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Threads</title>
+<para>
+ The number of threads to use for Mapnik rendering tasks.
+ By default the value is set to the 1 in case of any multi-threading rendering code chain crashes.
+ Otherwise trying setting the value to the number of the CPUs of the system minus one (so as not to overload the system), in order to minimise the overall rendering times.
+</para>
+</section>
+</section>
+
<section id="prefs_routing" xreflabel="Routing Preferences"><title>Routing</title>
<section><title>Routing engine</title>
<para>You can select the routing engine used by default, ie by features that do not propose a live selection, like <xref linkend="route_finder"/>.</para>
</section>
</section>
+<section id="prefs_toolbar" xreflabel="Toolbar Preferences"><title>Toolbar</title>
+<section><title>Append to Menu</title>
+<para>Allows setting the toolbar on the same vertical space as the menu, thus increasing vertical space for the map.</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Icon Size</title>
+<para>Allows configuration of the icon size, including overiding the system's default preference to the setting desired just for &appname;</para>
+</section>
+<section><title>Icon Style</title>
+<para>Allows configuration of the icon style, including overiding the system's default preference to the setting desired just for &appname;</para>
+</section>
+<section id="prefs_toolbar_customize" xreflabel="Customize Toolbar"><title>Customize</title>
+<para>Opens the Customize Toolbar dialog.</para>
+<para>From this dialog the items in the toolbar can be added, removed and reordered. Reordering of items is performed by drag and drop.</para>
+<figure>
+<title>Customize Toolbar dialog</title>
+<screenshot>
+ <graphic format="PNG" fileref="figures/customize_toolbar_dialog.png"/>
+</screenshot>
+</figure>
+</section>
+</section>
+
</section>
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</programlisting>
</para>
<para>You can find more examples in the documentation part of the distribution.</para>
- <section>
+ <section id="map_source" xreflabel="Map Source Extensions">
<title>Map Source</title>
<para>It is possible to add new map's sources. The file is <filename>~/.viking/maps.xml</filename> for <trademark>UNIX</trademark> like systems, <filename>C:\Documents and Settings\<replaceable>username</replaceable>\.viking\maps.xml</filename> on <trademark>Windows XP</trademark> or <filename>C:\Users\<replaceable>username</replaceable>\.viking\maps.xml</filename> on <trademark>Windows 7</trademark> onwards.</para>
<para>An example of the file is in the distribution <filename>doc/examples/maps.xml</filename>. Further examples and values are online in the <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/viking/index.php?title=Maps">Maps Wiki</ulink></para>
<listitem>
<para>maps_real_min_shrinkfactor=0.0039062499</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>maps_scale_inc_down=4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>maps_scale_inc_up=2</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>maps_scale_smaller_zoom_first=true</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>mapnik_buffer_size=128 (in pixels)</para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>background_max_threads=10</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>background_max_threads_local=<emphasis>Number of CPUs</emphasis></para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>window_menubar=true</para>
</listitem>
If within this range it will skip over this location and move on to the next saved history location.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>external_diary_program=rednotebook</para>
+ <para>Or in Windows it uses <filename>C:/Progra~1/Rednotebook/rednotebook.exe</filename> - This string value must use Unix separators and not have spaces.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>external_astro_program=stellarium</para>
+ <para>Or in Windows use <filename>C:/Progra~1/Stellarium/stellarium.exe</filename> - This string value must use Unix separators and not have spaces.
+ Further note due to this <ulink url="https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/1410529">Bug</ulink> in Stellarium means this does not actually work. You will need to reference a shortcut, rather than the executable directly.</para>
+ </listitem>
</orderedlist>
<section>
<para>K = Some text to display at the start of the message - <emphasis>Trkpt</emphasis></para>
<para>A = Altitude of a Trackpoint</para>
<para>S = Speed of a Trackpoint</para>
+ <para>B = Vertical Speed (Climb)</para>
<para>C = Course of a Trackpoint</para>
<para>L = Location of a Trackpoint</para>
<para>T = Time of a Trackpoint</para>
</variablelist>
</para>
</section>
+
</section>
+ <section id="config_keys" xreflabel="Keyboard Shortcuts File">
+ <title>Keyboard Shortcuts (Accelerator) Settings</title>
+ <para>This is held in the file <filename>~/.viking/keys.rc</filename></para>
+ <para>It is in the standard GTK Accelerator map format. Values are automatically read in and saved between &app; sessions.</para>
+ <para>This file is not intended to be manually edited, but since it is a plain text file it can be changed if desired.</para>
+ </section>
+
</section>
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