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Bruce Bannerman wrote:
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<title>Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination
format on the CD?<br>
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Hrm, GeoPDF... that's a fun one :)<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
You can also checkout MapsOnAStick [3]<br>
<br>
All of these read from KML or JSON. There are also JavaScript Shapefile
readers [4].<br>
<br>
hope that helps some!<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/crschmidt/haitibrowser">http://github.com/crschmidt/haitibrowser</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/ajturner/haitibrowser">http://github.com/ajturner/haitibrowser</a><br>
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/developmentseed/mapsonastick">http://github.com/developmentseed/mapsonastick</a><br>
[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js">http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js</a><br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:C851FEE6.47EA%25B.Bannerman@bom.gov.au"
type="cite"><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Bruce<br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF</a><br>
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On 1/07/10 2:53 AM, "Landon Blake" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="lblake@ksninc.com">lblake@ksninc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Leith,<br>
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I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>Landon<br>
</b>Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268<br>
Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658<br>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>From:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Leith Bade<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 28, 2010 10:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD<br>
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Hi,<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
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style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I am new to GIS.<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">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.<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">What would be the best way to do this?<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I see that MapWindow lets you build a custom
viewer application around its map viewer, but it would only work on
Windows.<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Another idea I have is to make some sort of
portable web server that runs GeoServer or MapServer.<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">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.<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">This would allow me to develop a data format
that is faster for rendering than shapefiles.<br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> <br>
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">Similar commercial products are <a
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href="http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/topographical.html">http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/topographical.html</a>
or <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://memory-map.com.au/products/maps/topo-nz-std.html">http://memory-map.com.au/products/maps/topo-nz-std.html</a><br>
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style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
Thanks,<br>
Leith Bade<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="leith@leithalweapon.geek.nz">leith@leithalweapon.geek.nz</a><br>
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