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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dean C. Mikkelsen wrote:
...
> Jo Walsh had a presentation (@FOSS4G2007 here in Victoria) about something
> similar to what is being asked for on a CD.

Jo Cook it was.

Venka

> 
> Here is the link:
> http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=81
> 
> Cheers,
> Dean
> 
> Dean C. Mikkelsen, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Terra ETL Ltd.
> Victoria, BC, Canada
> http://wwww.terraetl.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:africa-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Gavin Fleming
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:27 AM
> To: africa at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD?
> 
> 
> 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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