open source GIS CD

[Gavin Fleming]

Hi al

 

Have any of you worked on or do you know about a good CD of OS GIS
resources that you'd recommend for distribution? Or, are you keen to
help develop one that we could all use?

 

I'm aware of a few CDs: FreeGIS, UbuntiGIS, KnoppixGIS and a local
compilation by Agileworks. What do you think of these?

 

What I'm after is something like the following, to promote and
facilitate the availability and use of GIS in Africa:

 

- simple interface to contents, perhaps html-browser driven.

- collection of recent, stable, popular/good OS GIS software binaries
for multiple platforms (min Windows and Linux). A complete suite from
desktop to spatial DB to web map server to analysis to image processing
to develop tools and libraries, etc.

- compilation or pointers to support material for installation and
configuration

- a collection of free data

- a collection of metadata, available through metadata software like
GeoNetwork desktop.

- standalone, but with extra resources that can be obtained if you have
a network connection. Many users will not be online.

- Nice to have: multilingual

- not a once-off - this can be a resource that we can update over time.

- everything as standards-compliant as possible

- the whole thing released under open content / open source licences

 

I'd appreciate any comments, offers of assistance or suggestions for
other content or good ideas for setting it up.

 

thanks

 

Gavin Fleming

GISSA Open Source SIG 

 

 

Sustainable Development Researcher

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