[OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Bob Basques]

Leith,

I've managed to have GeoMoose run from a USB drive, complete with 
MapServer and PHP, nothing get's copied, you run everything from USB, 
even Apache.  Makes for a nice development environment, since you as a 
developer have complete control from front to back for the user 
experience.  When was the last time a developer had control over what 
browser was being used . . .

:c)

Anyway, I need to package the thing up and put it somewhere.   It didn't 
take me too long to get it all going, but there are currently a lot of 
pieces to it, and my plan before posting a package was to make it a 
single button start up affiar, just haven't gotten back to it for a 
couple of moths.  Too much other stuff going on.

bobb



On 6/30/2010 9:19 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:
> Bruce Bannerman wrote:
>> Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination format on the CD?
>>
> Hrm, GeoPDF... that's a fun one :)
>
> For Haiti, I took Chris Schmidt's HaitiBrowser [1] and modified it to 
> run locally [2] by "double-clicking" the index.html file and loading 
> local tiles. This was required as users didn't even have Admin rights 
> to run VMWare or install any applications. It's also cross-browser, 
> lightweight and effective.
>
> You can also checkout MapsOnAStick [3]
>
> All of these read from KML or JSON. There are also JavaScript 
> Shapefile readers [4].
>
> hope that helps some!
>
> Andrew
>
> [1] http://github.com/crschmidt/haitibrowser
> [2] http://github.com/ajturner/haitibrowser
> [3] http://github.com/developmentseed/mapsonastick
> [4] http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js
>
>> Bruce
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/07/10 2:53 AM, "Landon Blake" <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
>>
>>     Leith,
>>
>>     I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds.
>>
>>     You might be able to create some type of "live CD" that they use
>>     to demo Linux distributions, but otherwise your map viewing
>>     software needs to be installed on the target computer.
>>
>>     There are a few good open source desktop GIS programs that can
>>     display shapefiles. I'd promote OpenJUMP, but QGis is another
>>     program I hear really good things about. MapWindow also runs as a
>>     stand alone desktop program, not just a viewer.
>>
>>
>>     *Landon
>>     *Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
>>     Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
>>
>>
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>>     *From:* discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>     [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Leith Bade
>>     *Sent:* Monday, June 28, 2010 10:09 PM
>>     *To:* discuss at lists.osgeo.org
>>     *Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>>     I am new to GIS.
>>
>>
>>
>>     I would like to make a vector map that can be burned onto a CD
>>     then viewed just by running a program on it which copies the map
>>     data and a simple viewer. The dataset is very large (all of New
>>     Zealand) so the viewer needs to be effcient, and I have all the
>>     data in shapefiles.
>>
>>
>>
>>     What would be the best way to do this?
>>
>>
>>
>>     I see that MapWindow lets you build a custom viewer application
>>     around its map viewer, but it would only work on Windows.
>>
>>     Another idea I have is to make some sort of portable web server
>>     that runs GeoServer or MapServer.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Otherwise I could start developing my own custom map viewer that
>>     uses OpenGL/Direct3D/Direct2D or something to make the render
>>     fast with smooth scrolling etc.
>>
>>     This would allow me to develop a data format that is faster for
>>     rendering than shapefiles.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Similar commercial products are
>>     http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/topographical.html
>>     or http://memory-map.com.au/products/maps/topo-nz-std.html
>>
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Leith Bade
>>     leith at leithalweapon.geek.nz
>>
>>
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