Viking 1.4 released 2013-02-11 Download @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/files/viking/1.4/
Source code and (for the first time a simultaneous) Windows 32bit Installer Release. What is it? =========== Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks, routes and waypoints, show OSM maps under it, add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different things, etc. You can visit the project web site: http://viking.sourceforge.net/ What's New? =========== Many New features since 1.3.2: * Support for GPX Route type including transfer to/from GPS Devices. ** Replaced 'Add Track' tool with 'Create Route' tool. (NB There still is the Create Track tool) * Support for GPX 'Description' for tracks, waypoints and routes. * Add ability to Acquire My OSM Traces and ability to choose any subset of the available traces. * GPS Upload from a track. * Enable giving a track a specific colour (drawn in default draw by track mode). * Enable drawing all tracks in a specific colour (no longer is Black the only option). * Allow option of drawing a direction arrow when drawing a track. * Allow configuration of trackpoint size and direction arrow size. * Display Waypoint Icons in the layers panel treeview. * Restored Route Finding via Google Services. [Was disabled in 1.3.2 due to change in formats supported] * Only display sublayer container when there are sublayers. * Display map tile source and cached file information in a dialog for a position. * Quick zoom level change from the statusbar by clicking on the zoom level to select another level. * In the Zoom Tool mode: can select an area to zoom in on (via holding shift key + drag mouse). * Mouse Zooming in/out maintains the position focus on the mouse pointer location. ** (Use the keys Ctrl+Shift and mouse zoom to maintain the centered map location). * Improvements in Acquiring Wikipedia Points (allow more points, sortable columns, URL and feature type). * Allow opening a URL on a waypoint which has a URL for a comment or description. * Re-organized TrackWaypoint Layer menus to group functionality together better with New, View, Combine, Split, Delete, Acquire and Upload submenus. * Gradient Graph view on the Track Properties. * Allow same named TrackWaypoint sublayer items. i.e. can now have 2 (or more) waypoints with the same name. * Add support of a Map type for a local On Disk OSM Tile Format. * Revised Draw Track by Speed mode with a simple traffic light colouring scheme to represent slow/average/fast speeds. * Enable deletion of track points with the same timestamp. * Ability to merge segments of a track. * Allow generation of large pixel sized images. * Rework image generation to ask for file name first and then only allow supported map zoom levels. * Allow control of waypoint text size on the viewport display. * Allow control of GPX file saving track order (either Alphabetical or By Time via global preference). * Keyboard shortcuts to create layers and enable some tools. * Show the bearing and the step distance of the next point when creating a track or route. * Improved feedback in reading erroneous files. * Improved Help Manual. * More translation texts including a Finnish version. * Scripts to support the creation of the Windows Executable Installer. * Add a python tool to convert the Viking tile cache into a MapBox MBTiles format file. * Many internal improvements. Fixes since 1.3.2: * Don't accidently overwrite GPX and KML files in the Viking file type. * Use the default desktop font for waypoint viewport display text. * Ensure when opening multiple .vik files they are each loaded into a new window. * Show UTM location in statusbar when in UTM mode. * Fix: crash when dealing with non-compressed DEM files Contributors ============ * Fernando Arbeiza * Evan Battaglia * Stanislav Brabec * Guilhem Bonnefille * Cristian Klein * Rob Norris * Guido Scholz Translations ============ * Rob Norris en_GB.po: updated * Jorma Karvonen fi.po: created * Wonderfulheart it.po: updated * Maxime Teixeira fr.po: updated * Aiguanachein es.po: updated * Dmitri Bogomolov ru.po: updated * Guido Scholz de.po: updated * Dirk Roos nl.po: updated * Radek Stastny cs.po: updated * Dennis Baudys de.po: updated Known Issues ============ * Windows: Installer option to associate file types is not available * Windows: Generation of JPG image output is not available NB Expect a Video overview of New 1.4 features on Vimeo soon... Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
