Latest release : 0.11 (6/8/2008)
Merkaartor is (will be) a mapping program. Screenshots below. More information and screenshots with the walkthrough tutorial or the manual on another page.
Merkaartor is developed with a commercial license of the Qt library and is available under the GNU General Public License. Binaries below however are compiler with the open source edition of the same Qt library.
As is usual with free software, there is no guarantee these files will work, it is not even guaranteed they will not harm your system, although I've tried to double check everything (and they work for me).
Merkaartor is available for the following operating systems, but please read this important note on Qt compatibility first.
Download the latest source version at Merkaartor-0.11.tar.bz2 (8605kB) under the terms of the second edition of the GNU General Public License. Compilation and installation instructions are provided in the INSTALL file included with the source. Note that you need a Qt 4.2 development environment to compile Merkaartor.
This version is also available through Subversion with
svn co http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/merkaartor/
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openstreetmap/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openstreetmap/ubuntu hardy mainIf you have however already installed the KDE4.1 updates from Hardy, you might need my own repository at
deb http://www.irule.be/bvh/c++/merkaartor/debian binary-i386/Now you can install merkaartor with
apt-get install merkaartor
Download the binary edition of Merkaartor from Merkaartor-0.11.msi (10522kB). Once downloaded just double click the file to start the installer. If everything goes well, you'll end up with a Merkaartor entry in your start menu. Note that you must uninstall earlier version before you can proceed with the installation of Merkaartor. To do that, go to the configuration panel, software and select Merkaartor from the list and choose uninstall.
Download the binary edition of Merkaartor for Mac from Merkaartor-0.11.dmg is available for Mac OS X/Intel. This one includes built-in support for tracing from Yahoo maps. Please send feedback (positive and negative) to the Merkaartor mailing list
More screenshots are in the walkthrough section.
From version 0.0.11; Shows the Tower Bridge area in London with Yahoo imagery as the background. Since Merkaartor uses WebKit there is no need for an external browser like Firefox. The red dots limit the area for which we have not yet downloaded (all) the information from the OSM server.
From version 0.0.10; Shows the area around Tildonk with the mapnik style. This is a live editing session with a refresh rate of 10 frames per second on a reasonably modern laptop. The main road is selected, it is highlighted in blue on the edit window and the properties are visible at the left side.
From version 0.0.8; Shows the download from OpenStreetMap dialog. The map is a slippy map that loads data from http://tile.openstreetmap.org
See older screenshotsA little bit more for now. You can open .osm and .gpx files. You cannot save anything. You can download data from the Openstreetmap server. You can upload data to the Openstreetmap server. You cannot download data from GPS devices directly. You can create roads (ways in osm speak) and ways. You can move trackpoints. You can delete features. You can add tags to nodes and ways. You can reverse, split and join ways. You can set and visualize traffic direction. Some leisure and landuse areas are visualized and also the most important road types. You can do a little bit. There are terse instructions on compiling or usage. This software has only been tested on Windows and Linux. There is a (k)ubuntu edgy repository.
I cannot make any guarantees if I will improve on this. It started out as a test project to get acquainted with Qt4. I know Qt4 now.
Feel free to contact me if you want to help take this forward.