Thanks Bart, I''ll give these a try. Out of interest, I did a search through my Windows registry and found that uDig, QGIS and MapWindow all have keys stored there. I guess these were created during the installation. I'm not sure how important they are but I'll find out by making a CD with an autorun.inf file and checking whether I can run uDig, MapWindow or QGIS off the CD.<br><br>When I started on this project I thought it would take half an hour at most :-)<br><br>Frank.<br><br>
<p> <font size=2>----- Original Message ------<br> <b>From:</b>Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)<br> <b>Sent:</b>Thursday, October 18, 2007 20:10<br> <b>To:</b>Gavin Fleming GavinF@mintek.co.za; <br> <b>Cc: </b>africa@lists.osgeo.org; <br> <b>Subject:</b>Re: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD?</font>
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<td>Those programs have installers, but can be run without using the <br>installers. For uDIG I know this for sure, since we have it on a network <br>disk at work and just run it from there. But ofcourse the embedded JRE <br>is platform dependent. <br><br>Best regards, <br>Bart <br><br>Gavin Fleming schreef: <br>> OK, but other than setting up a LiveCD, what viewers can load and render <br>> shapefiles without any install? <br>> <br>> QGIS, uDIG and Mapwindow all need to be installed first. <br>> <br>> Perhaps a java applet in a browser, but then you're assuming that the <br>> user has Java already. <br>> <br>> Gavin <br>> <br>> <br>> -----Original Message----- <br>> From: africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org <br>> [mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bart van den <br>> Eijnden (OSGIS) <br>> Sent: 18 October 2007 01:31 PM <br>> To: Gavin Fleming <br>> Cc: africa@lists.osgeo.org <br>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD? <br>> <br>> Yeah, but you would still need a Mapserver (and a localhost webserver) <br>> to render the images from the shapefiles (or pre-generate tiles from the <br>> <br>> shapefiles and put them on the CD which could become a storage problem). <br>> <br>> OpenLayers can't load shapefiles directly ofcourse. <br>> <br>> I would recommend Quantum GIS for this purpose, but probably things like <br>> <br>> uDIG or MapWindow GIS can do this as well. <br>> <br>> Best regards, <br>> Bart <br>> <br>> Gavin Fleming schreef: <br>> <br>>> I haven't done this myself, but I believe you can use OpenLayers <br>>> (http://openlayers.org/) by simply writing an html page that uses this <br>>> javascript file (http://www.openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js). The <br>>> result would be that a browser would open up when the CD is inserted, <br>>> with your page with OpenLayers running inside it, which you would <br>>> preconfigure to load the data on your CD. <br>>> <br>>> Gavin <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> -----Original Message----- <br>>> From: africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org <br>>> [mailto:africa-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Sokolic <br>>> Sent: 17 October 2007 09:17 PM <br>>> To: Africa@lists.osgeo.org <br>>> Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD? <br>>> <br>>> Does anyone know of a spatial data viewer that can be freely <br>>> <br>> distributed <br>> <br>>> on CD along with spatial datasets (currently in shapefile format but <br>>> <br>> can <br>> <br>>> be converted into other formats). I would like to use autorun to start <br>>> <br>> <br>> <br>>> the viewer when the CD is inserted and then automatically load the <br>>> datasets. I've looked at a few free shapefile viewers but they all <br>>> <br>> need <br>> <br>>> to be installed and won't run directly from the CD. I would rather <br>>> <br>> have <br>> <br>>> something that runs automatically without the end user having to <br>>> <br>> install <br>> <br>>> anything. Anybody have any ideas? <br>>> <br>>> Frank Sokolic. <br>>> <br>>> _______________________________________________ <br>>> Africa mailing list <br>>> Africa@lists.osgeo.org <br>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa <br>>> _______________________________________________ <br>>> Africa mailing list <br>>> Africa@lists.osgeo.org <br>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br><br><br>-- <br>Bart van den Eijnden <br>OSGIS, Open Source GIS <br>bartvde@osgis.nl <br>http://www.osgis.nl <br><br>_______________________________________________ <br>Africa mailing list <br>Africa@lists.osgeo.org <br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/africa</td></tr></tbody></table></p>