Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import, plot and create tracks, routes and waypoints, show OSM and other maps, generate maps (using Mapnik), see real-time GPS position, Geotag Images, control items, upload/download OSM Traces and more. It is written mainly in C with some C++ and uses the GTK+3 toolkit.

Website: http://viking.sf.net/

You can download tarball of latest released version at https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/files

You can also retrieve the latest development version on the official Git repository:

$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/viking/code viking

On Debian Sid, following packages must be installed before building:

$ sudo apt install gtk-doc-tools docbook-xsl yelp-tools libpng-dev libgtk-3-dev libicu-dev libjson-glib-dev intltool autopoint xxd

The following packages are needed (they are included by default in Debian Sid, but not in other distributions). They must be installed too:

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin

The following packages are also used, but they can each be disabled with configure options, if desired:

$ sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev nettle-dev libmapnik-dev libgeoclue-2-dev libgexiv2-dev libgps-dev libmagic-dev libbz2-dev libzip-dev liboauth-dev libnova-dev

If you downloaded Viking from Git, you have to:

$ ./autogen.sh

Next, or if you downloaded a tarball, you have to:

$ ./configure
$ make

Check output of "./configure --help" for configuration options. In particular, it is possible to disable some features, like --disable-google in order to disable any Google stuff.

If you wish to install Viking, you have to (as root):

# make install

For detailed explanation on the install on Unix like systems, see the INSTALL file.

See test/ subdirectory for examples.

See doc/ and help/ subdirectories for documentation. You can also access user manual via Help menu entry.

First, read hacking notes.

In order to ease the creation of a development environment, there is a development container description in .devcontainer/devcontainer.json. This file can be used in different tools, like Visual Studio Code or to create online environments Github Codespaces.