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

[Frank Sokolic]

Thanks Bart, I''ll give these a try. Out of interest, I did a search through my Windows registry and found that uDig, QGIS and MapWindow all have keys stored there. I guess these were created during the installation. I'm not sure how important they are but I'll find out by making a CD with an autorun.inf file and checking whether I can run uDig, MapWindow or QGIS off the CD.

When I started on this project I thought it would take half an hour at most :-)

Frank.


 

 ----- Original Message ------
 From:Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
 Sent:Thursday, October 18, 2007 20:10
 To:Gavin Fleming GavinF at mintek.co.za; 
 Cc: africa at lists.osgeo.org; 
 Subject:Re: [OSGeo Africa] Spatial data viewer to run off a CD? 
 


 
 
 
 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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