![]() Next step was to download a data from my last weekend trip to Yarigadake, Kitakama-ridge (unfortunately we had to turn back due to rain). Getting used to QMapShack is a bit a challenge coming from QuoVadis, but the Wiki help pages allowed a quick start. Fortunately, QMapShack supports Garmin vector maps, the only maps that are (as far as I know) available digitally for Japan. Dealing with GPS units is not a problem, this is the easy part. QMapShack is far from as feature rich as QuoVadis, but as far as I see now, it does have enough features for me and my mountaineering in Japan. So for most of the GPS work I had to reboot my laptop to Windows, do my stuff there, and then switch back to Linux. For some time I had a VirtualBox installation of Windows, but that was more a clutch than anything else. ![]() For serious work as a professional it was indispensable for me. I could use the digital raster maps of Austria, Switzerland (SwissTOPO), Germany, France, Italy, as well as Garmin vector maps. While working as mountain guide in Europe it was an essential tool for me. It is extremely feature-rich, and above all it can work with many different maps. QuoVadis is a great program, there is nothing to complain. Let us start with the program I was using since ages, and still are using, QuoVadis. Fortunately, Garmin Maps are supported, and since all my maps regarding Japan are Garmin maps, I am now in the process to converting to QMapShack at least for my Japan GPS data. The one big difference is of course the set of maps one can use with QMapShack. QMapShack is very similar in the target audience, but very different in usage. It only has one disadvantage, it doesn’t work on Linux. QuoVadis is a great program, able to work with various commercial digital maps as well as GPS receivers. I have been using QuoVadis now for many many years, and it contains my mountaineering history all the way back. How likely is it that Qmapshack will be added to the Mint repositories in the near future?Īlternatively, can anyone provide me clear plain English instruction for installing QMapshack that don't involve too many steps where I could go wrong (because I am relatively new to Linux).In one of the comments on my last post on Windows 10, a friendly reader from my home country pointed me at QMapShack as a replacement for QuoVadis. However, the only instructions I can find for compiling and installing are in German (not English) and they appear to be very complicated and tedious (refer ), so I am not persuaded to install the software via that method. I have exhausted all the alternative suggestions). In particular, I believe that QMapshack can handle the necessary Garmin *.img map format files and is able to handle GPS tracks that I can draw/edit and save (refer: & ).Īpart from from QMapshack, there are no viable Linux alternatives to Basecamp that would suit my purposes (ie. I use Basecamp mainly for planning bush walks and also for archiving the tracks of my walks. I would like to run Qmapshack in Linux Mint so that I can completely remove Windows from my PC and use only Mint.Ĭurrently, I use Garmin Basecamp in Windows as my main GPS mapping application.
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