[OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD?

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Yeah, but you would still need a Mapserver (and a localhost webserver) 
to render the images from the shapefiles (or pre-generate tiles from the 
shapefiles and put them on the CD which could become a storage problem). 
OpenLayers can't load shapefiles directly ofcourse.

I would recommend Quantum GIS for this purpose, but probably things like 
uDIG or MapWindow GIS can do this as well.

Best regards,
Bart

Gavin Fleming schreef:
> I haven't done this myself, but I believe you can use OpenLayers
> (http://openlayers.org/) by simply writing an html page that uses this
> javascript file (http://www.openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js). The
> result would be that a browser would open up when the CD is inserted,
> with your page with OpenLayers running inside it, which you would
> preconfigure to load the data on your CD.
>
> Gavin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Sokolic
> Sent: 17 October 2007 09:17 PM
> To: Africa at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD?
>
> Does anyone know of a spatial data viewer that can be freely distributed
>
> on CD along with spatial datasets (currently in shapefile format but can
>
> be converted into other formats). I would like to use autorun to start 
> the viewer when the CD is inserted and then automatically load the 
> datasets. I've looked at a few free shapefile viewers but they all need 
> to be installed and won't run directly from the CD. I would rather have 
> something that runs automatically without the end user having to install
>
> anything. Anybody have any ideas?
>
> Frank Sokolic.
>
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Bart van den Eijnden
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