Vikazimut

Orienteering application

Vikazimut is a mobile application that allows you to perform orienteering courses in autonomy from maps available on this site. The application displays the map and records the GPS track and punched times. Punching the control points can be done from the QR code or NFC tag readers of the mobile if the course is equipped with physical control point or automatically from the GPS position. The course statistics can then be sent to the server for an analysis of the track and punch times and a comparison with other orienteers.

Free and open source

The Android application and the web server are fully developed under the free LGPL license.

Respectful of privacy

No personal data is recorded or exchanged with the application. Only the anonymized and timeless GPS track can be sent to the server at the user's initiative.

Who we are

Vikazimut is a project of computer science students from the National Graduate School of Engineering ENSICAEN and the University of Caen Normandy. The project responds to a request from the Vik'Azim association for the creation of a mobile application for the practice orienteering.

Four promotions of students from ENSICAEN took turns to finalize the mobile application.

2015/2016

Florentin BLANC
Denis CHEN
Tristan FAUQUETTE
Annick VOLCY

2016/2017

Vincent DUPLESSIS
Benjamin HOUX
Axel OLLIVIER
Yann PELLEGRINI
Elodie PROUX

2017/2018

Samuel ANSEL
Sylvain GAUVREAU
Antonio MANCUSO
Loïc PETIT
Clément PODEVIN

2018/2019

Aboubakrine NIANE
Lauren SILVA ROLAN SAMPAIO
Mathieu SERAPHIM

The Web server of the application was realized by two promotions of students of computer science degree of the University of Caen Normandy during their training course.

2019/2020

Martin FÉAUX DE LA CROIX

2020/2021

Antoine BOITEAU
Suliac LAVENANT
Clémentine LEROY (iOS support for the app)

Supervisors : Régis Clouard, Alain Lebret, Eric Pigeon, François Rioult.