Garmin's MapSource software is hardly the only reason for me to boot
into Windows and it does not look like Garmin ever wants to address
Linux users by writing a portable piece of software. So I started to
help myself. I found several tools like GPSBabel or sendmap to handle
data for my GPS receiver but no tool to visualize and manage this data
in a decent way. On my quest I found a specification of the used IMG
format for maps at Sourceforge. After some reading and toying around I
considered this specification good enough to start a GUI project to
visualize such files. QLandkarte is the result of this effort.
Including additional patches by fseidel [at] xxx which are upstream and
tested but not yet released elsewhere.



Authors:
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Oliver Eichler <oliver.eichler [at] xxx>
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QLandkarte GT is the ultimate outdoor aficionado's tool. It supports GPS
maps in GeoTiff format as well as Garmin's img vector map format.
Additional it is the PC side front end to QLandkarte M, a moving map
application for mobile devices. And it fills the gap Garmin leaves in
refusing to support Linux. QLandkarte GT is the proof that writing
portable applications for Unix, Windows and OSX is feasible with a
minimum of overhead. No excuses!

QLandkarte GT does replace the original QLandkarte with a much more
flexible architecture. It's not limited to a map format or device.
Thus if you think your Magellan GPS or other should be supported, join the team.

Authors:
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Oliver Eichler <oliver.eichler [at] xxx>
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