Announce: MapSnack - Geospatial Virtual Appliance

[Till Adams]

Dear Stanislav,

that's a great one ;-) especially I like the name "mapsnack". As we talked
about this yesterday we have to keep things going on and maybe merge
together our projects. What you've done is what we have done (as it is too
often) and called it "GDIdevL".

I hope there are a lot of people out there and going to use that stuff for
enlarge this community.

Regards ,Till

> [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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