florb: A simple map viewer and GPX editor

About

florb is a really simple map viewer and GPX editor written in C++ using the FLTK UI toolkit. florb makes it easy to create and edit tracks for planning short and extended trips into the wild green. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Features

• User configurable tile servers (e.g. OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and many others)
• Automatic map dowloading
• Tile cache with metadata storage (expiration date)
• Map overlay support
• GPSd support incl. track recording
• GPX import and export
• Editing of existing GPX tracks
• Creating new GPX tracks through simple point and click
• Up- and download tracks to and from Garmin devices
• Places search (OSM Nominatim)
• Bulk tile download
• View elevation profile for complete track or selected waypoints
• Localization support (German translation)

Screenshots

Installation

Download

florb 1.0 is out! Grab a copy here.

Requirements

• FLTK
• TinyXML2
• libgps
• libxpm
• libcurl
• YAML-Cpp (>= 0.5.0)
• Boost::System / Filesystem / Thread
• gpsbabel (if you want to talk to Garmin devices)
• OMake

Build and install

Make sure you have the necessary dependencies installed, then change into the 'src' directory and run:

	omake
	sudo omake install

The default prefix is '/usr', you can specify a custom one like so:

	omake PREFIX=/path/to/florb

If you want a debug build add

	DEBUG=1

to the omake commandline.

Contact

Feedback and bugreports are always very much appreciated! Maybe you even want to contribute some code? Clone the GitHub repository and knock yourself out. Or drop an eMail to florb@shugaa.de with your patch. I'd love to see Windows and Mac ports, too.

License

florb is distributed unter the terms of the MIT license as stated below:

Copyright (c) 2014, Björn Rehm (bjoern@shugaa.de)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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