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

[Frank Sokolic]

Hi Edouard,

Thanks, this looks like a promising solution. I've used the links to the 
TimeMap web site that you provided and it looks as if it is just what I 
need. The other programs I've tried, like MapWindow and uDig, run off CD 
but try to write configuration files to the CD which of course is problem.

Frank.


Edouard Legoupil wrote:
> Hi Franck,
>
> I have been using TimeMap for this type of use. I guess that should fill your needs
>
> It is a java applet, that can read shapefiles (still with a limitation of space).
>
> - No key registry
> - No installation
> - It works with Autorun
> - It comes with a nice wizard that should help you to do something quickly
>
> Users just need to have a jre installed
>
> It is really easily configurable. You can make a really nice, user friendly and customised interface
>
> http://www.timemap.net/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/timemap/
>
> Good liuck
> Edouard
>
>
>   
>>>> "Frank Sokolic"  <sokolic at worldonline.co.za> 10/18/07 07:24PM >>>
>>>>         
> 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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