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Viking 1.9 - released 2020-03-20

Headline Features

  • GPX 1.1 Support for most common Extensions (inc. Heart Rate, Power, Temperature & Cadence) - SF#96 / GH#77
  • GTK3 - GH#111
    • Pinch Zoom support on Touchpads/Touchscreens (not GTK2 build)
  • Select Tool is now the default with more intuitive behaviour to enable moving the map - [GH#87(https://github.com//issues/87)]
  • OpenTopoMap is the new Map Default
  • Online Search in Left Hand Pane
  • Track Statistics in Left Hand Pane
  • OSRM Routing Support
  • Log diagnostic Window
  • DEM Colour options - SF#158
  • DEM Server enhanced support (NASA Earthdata login and alternative DEM server configuration) - SF#159
  • Ruler uses Great Circle drawing and distance.
  • Single key Shortcuts support GH#40 + GH#85
  • Improved Track Area Coverage (faster drawing, option to limit years of coverage)
  • Monthly Statistics Analysis
  • Native KML Parser enabling support for more KML features
  • More KML export options
  • Ability to convert Tracks/Routes to Waypoints and vice versa.
  • Ability to 'Rotate' Routes/Tracks, i.e. to shift the start/end point of circular routes.
  • Ability to Reset Preferences and Layer Defaults - GH#86
  • Ability to Reset Layers back to the Layer Default.
  • Enable Filtering on some List Displays (hence a basic internal search).
  • Support more GPX 1.0 Waypoint fields - the less commonally encountered ones.
  • Flatpak Version - also available on Flathub - GH#70

SourceForge Bugs Fixed

  • SF#157 Waypoint Properties dialog shows wrong waypoint symbol
  • SF#149 HTTPS Does not work on Windows install
  • SF#84 Losses Extended Waypoint Information on Save/Export

Additional SourceForge Feature Requests Implemented

  • SF#81 Use XDG-compliant for config, cache (e.g. ~/.config/viking/)
    • Viking will use your existing ~/.viking/ directory if there is one
    • For existing users manually move ~/.viking/ to ~/.config/viking/ to start using the XDG location
  • SF#133 Color of Tracks
  • SF#150 Allow Specifying Offset for Map Source
  • SF#154 Warning about "external layers" usage
  • SF#155 Add "Save as" keyboard shortcut
  • SF#157 Export All to Single GPX File

Additional Github Issues Implemented

  • GH#65 Geotag images does nothing when using KML files
  • GH#88 Allow zero-additional-click properties view when selecting
  • GH#90 Don't fill in empty KML s for the user
  • GH#92 OpenTopoMap uses ~/.viking-maps/Unknown
  • GH#93 Clarify zoom levels
  • GH#94 GPS data is removed while geotagging
  • GH#96 Incorrect timezone on Distance-Time and Elevation-Time tabs of Track Properties
  • GH#98 Crash when uploading GPS trace to OSM
  • GH#102 Feature request: increase max. map cache size
  • GH#106 Treat a latitude containing a comma as a Latitude Longitude pair when entering a Waypoint
  • GH#107 Easier way to enter historical dates
  • GH#114 Routes created via Route Finder can only be terminated by ESC
  • GH#116 yournavigation.org is (permanently) down

Also as usual, many other smaller features - see the source code history.

Building from source

Fixes:

Now builds under GCC10

Certain build configurations that were broken in the previous release have been fixed (and Continuous Integration builds to try to prevent future breakage).

Build minimums:

  • Program: glib-compile-resources - so requires package libglib2.0-dev-bin / glib2-devel
  • GTK 2.22 / 3.22
    • GTK3 is now the default - so requires package libgtk-3-dev / gtk3-devel
    • To enforce GTK2 use the configure option '--enable-gtk2'
    • Anticipated that this will be the last Viking release that supports GTK2.
  • GLIB 2.44
  • GIO 2.32
  • GDK-Pixbuf 2.32
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