[OpenLayers-Users] Re: Offline usage of openlayers

[Charles Galpin]

This looks like I was going to suggest - run a web server using portable apps (this many even be based on it). Done properly I don't think they would even know there is a web server and possibly even a database running.

http://portableapps.com/

charles

On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Phil Scadden wrote:

>> I have a client that needs to have a map solution running offline, and 
>> no internal webserver. run it as file based.
>> 
> I've done a lot of work on this. Depends on how much functionality you 
> want. TMS, Image work fine. The moment you get into queries and vectors, 
> it gets tough. WFS is out.  Chrome is hopeless. Its security model wont 
> let you use ajax so its a real struggle to get KML,GML (your only vector 
> options) in. You have to make heavy use of tag injection to get JSON in. 
> Other browsers are okay with KML/GML but they need to be small as they 
> are slow to load. you might like to look at 
> http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/oct/02/maps-stick-version-2-released.
>