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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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[1] <a 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 href="lblake@ksninc.com">lblake@ksninc.com</a>> wrote:<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>
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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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<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Leith Bade<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 28, 2010 10:09 PM<BR>
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<B>Subject:</B> [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD<BR>
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Hi,<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>I am new to GIS.<BR>
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</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>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>What would be the best way to do this?<BR>
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</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>
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</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>
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</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>
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</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>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Similar commercial products are <a href="http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/topographical.html">http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/topographical.html</a> or <a 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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Thanks,<BR>
Leith Bade<BR>
<a href="leith@leithalweapon.geek.nz">leith@leithalweapon.geek.nz</a><BR>
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