Qt Virtual Chart Table (QVCT)

The Qt Virtual Chart Table (QVCT) is a Qt application which provides a navigation software that simulates the chart table (and instruments corner) usually found in ships.

It is thus suitable for sailing, flying or any other outdoor activity performed using a conventional navigation/planning approach:

• using heading, speed and time as primary navigation means
• using easily identifiable landmarks as references
• navigating along discrete waypoints routes
• relying on GPS only as a secondary navigation mean
• using offline maps (rather than Internet-dependent online resources)

It features:

• loading offline geo-referenced maps, stored in any format/projection supported by the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
• associating a digital elevation model (DEM) to any map, stored in any format/projection supported by the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
• creating, loading, saving and managing landmarks, routes and tracks, stored in GPX or QVCT (XML) format
• creating, loading, saving and managing (multiple) vessels, stored in QVCT (XML) format and linkable, individually or globally (dynamic flotilla), to (multiple) navigation devices (see below)
• defining and using multiple navigation devices, including:
  * GPS daemon (GPSD) - GPS mode
  * GPS daemon (GPSD) - AIS mode
  * SBS-1 (ADS-B) base station
• loading and saving entire navigation/planning projects, stored in QVCT (XML) format
• displaying vessel instruments in an activity-specific cockpit, including:
  * general aviation "basic six"
• printing maps and overlays (landmarks, routes, etc.) in standard (screen) or high (1200 DPI) resolution
• touchscreen-friendly user interface (you really don't need a mouse or keyboard while navigating)

It runs and is being developed on Linux (Ubuntu), though it can potentially also be built on Mac OS X and Windows.

The Qt Virtual Chart Table (QVCT) is free software:
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, Version 3.

The Qt Virtual Chart Table (QVCT) is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The Qt Virtual Chart Table (QVCT) includes all resources which contain the mention "Qt Virtual Chart Table (QVCT)" in their preamble.

Other resources are (and must be) used according to their original license, which is (should be made) available from their respective author.

The first step is recovering the source code using the GIT versioning system:

mkdir /path/to/source && cd /path/to/source
git clone https://github.com/cedric-dufour/qvct

Build environment configuration is then achieved using CMake:

mkdir /path/to/build && cd /path/to/build
cmake /path/to/source

Compilation and installation are then achieved using regular Make:

cd /path/to/build
make && ls -al ./bin
make doc && ls -al ./doc
make install

Alternatively (to Make), distribution-specific Debian packages can be built and installed using the ad-hoc commands:

cd /path/to/source
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b && ls -al ../qvct*.deb
dpkg -i ../qvct*.deb

Please refer to the User Manual and the Frequently Asked Questions.