#OpenStreetMap and FOSS #GIS heckers : I am looking for a GIS app (on Win10) to plot GPX traces and grid references and measure the range of various (licensed) radio transmitters (i.e draw straight line from TX site to RX location and get distance on screen).
I can do it via some proprietary app I bought 10 years ago for plotting cycling routes, but I've only got the app on one laptop and its clunky.
for security reasons the info should normally remain private.
Anyone got suggestions?
@vfrmedia Have you looked at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Viking yet?
@sophie thanks - just downloaded this and will try it out although the download location has changed from what is on the OSM wiki (the one I used is below).
also I get a blanco map at the moment - but I expect I need to set it up properly
@vfrmedia Layers -> New Map Layer, choose something that is not Mapquest.
@sophie thanks - rather bizarrely I had to use Microsoft/Bing layer rather than OSM or there is this "API key required" marks all over the map), and street names are currently missing, but I successfully imported the GPX track from earlier and least I've got something that *looks* accurate, matches up with where I expect things to be and Viking has the ruler/marker facility I want
I will experiment with this further once I've found out how to use it properly but it looks promising.. 😎
Further experiments with #Viking #GIS software (HT @sophie for the link) - I've got it to successfully display useful #OpenStreetMap layer (only the #OpenCycleMap requires API key for some reason ), GPS traces and the rulers I wanted..
Only missing feature is conversion to UK grid refs but not major issue as I usually only need a grid ref for Ofcom license of base stations and have mobile phone apps that can provide it+lat/long and found this website to do conversions
