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

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Those programs have installers, but can be run without using the 
installers. For uDIG I know this for sure, since we have it on a network 
disk at work and just run it from there. But ofcourse the embedded JRE 
is platform dependent.

Best regards,
Bart

Gavin Fleming schreef:
> 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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Bart van den Eijnden
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