About

Columbus Viewer is a manager and viewer of Columbus V900 files, the CSV (comma separated values) text files generated by the Columbus GPS logger.

Main features include: file search by location name, view using OpenStreetMap, statistics computation, export to GPX and KML.

This program is donationware.

For more information, support, and bugs please get in touch with info@minimalbit.com.

License

This program can be freely downloaded from http://www.minimalbit.com/columbus and used at no charge. You are also free to redistribute the program, as long as this notice is distributed together with the program.

If you find this program useful, please consider making a donation by going to: http://www.minimalbit.com/columbus

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Components and Acknowledgments

Columbus Viewer is written in Java and built on top of the following tools and libraries:

Netbeans and its Matisse GUI Editor (http://www.netbeans.org)
SwingX, a set extensions to the Swing GUI toolkit available at http://swinglabs.org and distributed under the terms of of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)
JFreeCharts, a Java chart library, available at http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/ and distributed under the terms of of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL)
GavaghanGeodesy, a Java library for geodesy computations (http://www.gavaghan.org)

Reverse geocoding is performed using the following services:

Geonames (http://www.geonames.org), which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Tiny Geocoder (http://tinygeocoder.com/blog/how-to-use/)

Maps are built using OpenStreetMap tiles (http://www.openstreetmap.org) and are made available under the terms of the OpenStreetMapLicense.