QMapShack
Consumer-grade GIS desktop app for planning trips and viewing GPS tracks on vector, raster and elevation maps.
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About QMapShack
QMapShack is a desktop program for planning trips and working with GPS tracks. It displays vector, raster and elevation maps, so routes and recorded tracks can be viewed against the terrain they cover.
The project describes itself as consumer grade GIS software. Its repository includes the Garmin FIT SDK for reading activity files, along with build configurations for Windows and macOS. It has a long commit history and suits hikers, cyclists and other outdoor users who manage their own GPS data.
Strengths
- Combines vector, raster and elevation maps
- Trip planning and track viewing in one program
- Reads Garmin FIT activity files
Limitations
- GIS-style interface has a learning curve
- Documentation lives mainly in the repository
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download from its public repository.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The QMapShack contributors
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Outdoor users planning trips and reviewing GPS tracks on a desktop
- Categories
- Maps & navigation
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to QMapShack
Compare allSoftware that can replace QMapShack for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Garmin BaseCamp
Garmin desktop software for planning outdoor routes and organizing maps, waypoints and GPS data.
Garmin BaseCamp is free closed-source desktop software for Windows and macOS, built around Garmin devices and maps for planning routes and organizing waypoints.
Viking
Free desktop program for viewing, editing and analysing GPS tracks, routes and waypoints on maps.
Viking is a free GPL desktop program for Windows and Linux that edits GPX, KML and TCX tracks, geotags photos and plans routes with OSRM.
GPXSee
An open-source GPS log file viewer and analyser that opens GPX, FIT, KML and many other formats.
GPXSee is an open-source viewer for Linux and Android that opens many GPS log formats, but it analyses tracks rather than planning routes.
RouteConverter
An open-source Java desktop tool for converting and editing GPS routes, tracks and waypoints.
RouteConverter is an open-source Java desktop tool that reads more than 100 GPS formats and plans routes with BRouter profiles, with a stronger focus on conversion.
QMapShack as an alternative
Listings that name QMapShack as an alternative.
GPX Viewer
An Android app for viewing and analysing GPX, KML, KMZ and LOC tracks and waypoints.
QMapShack is a free open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux for viewing tracks on vector, raster and elevation maps.
gpx.studio
A free online editor for viewing, creating and editing GPX files with route planning tools.
QMapShack is a free open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux combining trip planning and track viewing on vector, raster and elevation maps.
QGIS
A free and open-source desktop GIS for making maps, editing spatial data and running analysis.
QMapShack is a free open-source desktop program aimed at outdoor trip planning and GPS tracks, with far fewer analysis and print layout tools.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
GPSBabel
A free program that converts waypoints, tracks and routes between GPS receivers and mapping software.
GPS Visualizer
A free online tool that turns GPS files, addresses and coordinates into maps, profiles and converted files.
BRouter
An offline OpenStreetMap routing engine with configurable profiles, aimed mainly at bike routing.
