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

[Gavin Fleming]

OK, but other than setting up a LiveCD, what viewers can load and render
shapefiles without any install?

QGIS, uDIG and Mapwindow all need to be installed first. 

Perhaps a java applet in a browser, but then you're assuming that the
user has Java already. 

Gavin


-----Original Message-----
From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bart van den
Eijnden (OSGIS)
Sent: 18 October 2007 01:31 PM
To: Gavin Fleming
Cc: africa at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD?

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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