>> I recently stopped using viking for route planning, finding
>> www.bikehike.co.uk much more useful (especially being in the UK!).
>
> Are you more interested in the Ordnance Survey maps it provide, or in the
> various tools available to edit tracks ?
>
> I will search if it is possible to add these maps as a map layer in viking.
>
It's mainly due to the OS map coverage.
I don't think these can be used in Viking, as these OS maps are accessed via a
web API, with a users key (similar to embedding Google maps into a web page).
There also used to be a limit to the number of tiles served (about 10,000 IIRC,
but it may have been removed/increased).
Maybe OS map information could be provided, but I think would need to be from a
WMS provider. [perhaps I/we need to use Gleb's WMS code support and finish off
the implementation of being able to select the provider/URL info.] I think JOSM
and merkaartor have this capability.
Further Viking may need to show some kind of attribution/license/terms of use
for the particular map it is displaying. [best place to put in the bottom right
hand corner].
Also bike hike is useful as I can directly export the route into a GPX *route*.
Normally with Viking I export as GPX (as you now know how!), and then run a
little sed/awk script to convert trkpt's into rtept's. (and trk's into rte's).
Perhaps I will get around to doing it directly (or even route upload to GPS) in
Viking C code, but ATM the script / command line is easier to implement:
track2route.sh:
#!/bin/bash
# Quick hack to convert a track produced by viking into a route suitable for
uploading to a GPS
#
cp "$1" "$1".bak; grep -v trkseg "$1".bak | sed s/trk/rte/> "$1"; rm "$1".bak
run as eg:
./track2route.sh file.gpx
Then to upload the route to a (USB) GPS device eg:
gpsbabel -r -i gpx,gpxver=1.1 -f "file.gpx" -o garmin -F /dev/ttyUSB0
With Garmin GPS's I've always preferred using routes rather than trackback
facilities.
HTH.
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