Announce: MapSnack - Geospatial Virtual Appliance
Stanislav Sumbera
stan at SUMBERA.COM
Fri Sep 15 04:35:55 PDT 2006
[cross posting to freegis]
Hi all,
I have presented at FOSS4G idea, way and solution to what I started to
call as "Geospatial Virtual Appliance" Actually its name is MapSnack,
it runs as virtual machine - completly isolated from underlying host
machine, alowing you to make snapshots, extend, safely drop or return
back state..simply all benefits offered by virtualization.
I belive this could be a way of complimentary offering to binary
distros to wide range of users who just don't want to install and
interfere with their existing system - just copy files to your hdd and
run via.
Currently MapSnack supports VMWare virtualization platform (thus you
need free VMWare player running either on Linux or Windows and soon on
Mac). I plan to support various virtualization platforms (Xen,
QEMU,..)and native run as well and create various appliances targeting
specific user needs rather than putting there all possible packages.
I feel that the term "GEOSPATIAL VIRTUAL APPLIANCE" is very important
and need to be addressed to the users who are just unconsciously
waiting for this option to start leverage SaaS approach without any
risk.
Main information you can find here:
http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=84&sessionId=41&confId=1
home page of the project is: http://mapsnack.mendelu.cz
download can be done via bittorent from:
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/187
Kay Applications perinstalled: Apache-2.2.2 PHP-5.1.4 GDAL-1.3.1
PROJ-4.4.9 GRASS-6.0.2 MapServer-4.8.3 MapLab-2.2.1 ka-map-0.2.0
p.mapper-1.9.5 beta
if you have any questions please contact me...
..enjoy ..your (map)Snack
Stan
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