[Live-demo] Re: [osgeo4w-dev] LiveDVD, Portable GIS, osgeo4w

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 15:19:58 PDT 2008


Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that osgeo4w needs to be 
connected to the internet to install. Right?
For a DVD handed out at conferences, it would be desirable if the 
software was on the DVD, and installable without connecting to the internet.
Would this be difficult to set up?

Matt Wilkie wrote:
> whups, ignore what I said. The as-shipped osgeo4w.bat is already 
> portable!
>
>
> matt wilkie
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> Matt Wilkie wrote:
>> Osgeo4w is portable pretty much as is, at least the command line 
>> utilities like gdal_translate and ogr2ogr are. I don't use openev, 
>> mapserver, udig, etc. very often so I don't know if they are.
>>
>> - Move .\OSGeo4W\bin\o4w_env.bat to .\OSGeo4W\
>> - Edit o4w.bat and change set osgeo4w_root like so:
>>     set OSGEO4W_ROOT=%~dp0%
>> - Run o4w_env.bat
>>
>> All done. :)
>>
>>
>> matt wilkie
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Geographic Information,
>> Information Management and Technology,
>> Yukon Department of Environment
>> 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9
>> 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax
>> http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> Jo,
>>> Great to hear your interest in aligning the LiveDVD and Portable GIS 
>>> projects,
>>>
>>> I'd like to hear you thoughts about including Portable GIS on the 
>>> LiveDVD.
>>> The LiveDVD is starting to be handed out at OSGeo stands at 
>>> conferences, and it would be good to have windows software on it 
>>> too. (We currently have included some windows installers on the 
>>> LiveDVD already).
>>>
>>> Jo and osgeo4w,
>>> I'm also interested to hear whether osgeo4w is currently used to 
>>> build Portable GIS. If not, should it?
>>>
>>> Archaeogeek Admin wrote:
>>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your comment on archaeogeek- I would love to get 
>>>> involved with the OSGeo marketing focus, and with the live dvd- if 
>>>> I can find the time! I will stop by the wiki pages and subscribe to 
>>>> the lists though.
>>>>
>>>> Portable GIS- it would be cool to see the two projects aligned- 
>>>> mine is entirely windows based at the moment (and due for an 
>>>> upgrade I think), but I would be happy to see it used at 
>>>> conferences so yeah, I'll be in touch!
>>>>
>>>> All the best
>>>>
>>>> Jo
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
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