[postgis-users] Geospatial LinuxLive distro?

[dnrg]

Thanks Steven. I will have a look at OpenEV.

Do you happen to know if there are any LinuxLive
distros out there that contain GIS clients like uDig,
QGIS, GRASS, etc, with some rudimentary spatial data
to play with? Seems to me like it would be a fun way
to expose people to open source GIS.

The distro could strip out non-essential,
non-geospatial apps to make everything fit on one CDR.

If someone hasn't already put an open source
geospatial LinuxLive distro together, someone should.
I'd do it myself, but don't have a lot of experience
with Linux itself (though I used to be a Solaris /
Tru64 / Irix / sysadmin maaaaany moons ago).

I don't want to install Linux on my laptop at the
moment, but it would be terrific to boot a LinuxLive
CDR and be able to sample some of the open source GIS
clients and analysis tools that are out there for
Linux.

Dana


--- Steven De Vriendt <gisaalter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dana,
> 
> Take a look at the OpenEV toolkit; OpenEV comes with
> FWTools;
> you'll find it here:
> http://fwtools.maptools.org/ and here
>
http://openev.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=features
> I don't know if it'll fullfill all of your raster
> analysis needs, but
> it won't hurt
> taking a look.
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/27/06, dnrg <dananrg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Steven.
> >
> > I should have finished my coffee and scrolled
> further
> > down on Mark's page. I found what I needed here:
> >
> > PostGIS 1.1.2 release for PostgreSQL 8.1 (inc.
> GEOS
> > 2.2.1/PROJ 4.4.9 ~1.2Mb)
> >
> >
>
http://www.webbased.co.uk/mca/pg81/postgis-pg81-setup-1.1.2-1.exe
> >
> > Saw an older 8.0 PostgreSQL version and didn't
> scroll
> > any further. Mea culpa.
> >
> > What are people here using as an ArcMap substitute
> and
> > why?
> >
> > Obviously there is uDig, which I'm going to
> download.
> > But for advanced analysis, it seems like QGIS as a
> > front-end to GRASS is an option. For now, I'm
> looking
> > for an all-windows solution - not sure I want to
> mess
> > with Cygwin, which GRASS seems to require.
> >
> > So, what's the best open source ArcMap substitute
> on
> > the Windows platform with strong analysis
> > capabilities.
> >
> > In particular, I am looking for something that
> does
> > raster analysis well (roughly equivalent to ESRI's
> > Spatial Analyst [SA]) - one application is that I
> need
> > to generate what is known in SA as Zonal
> Statistics.
> >
> > I have a parcel shapefile and and raster. I need
> to
> > summarize the raster cell values beneath each
> vector
> > parcel zone.
> >
> > This is easy to do in Spatial Analyst, and it
> provides
> > a number of statistics that you can then attach as
> > attributes to the shapefile, e.g. MAX, MEAN, MODE,
> and
> > my favorite, MAJORITY (which cell value appears
> most
> > frequently inside any given parcel).
> >
> > Actually, I'm wondering if there's a difference
> > between MODE and MAJORITY. From my spatial
> statistics
> > course, I recall that MODE is the most popular /
> > (literally, most fashionable in French) value. Or
> > maybe ESRI uses MAJORITY as a synonym for MODE.
> Been
> > awhile since I've used Spatial Analyst.
> >
> > Sorry for the digressions, but it's Saturday and
> thus
> > it may be "slow list day." :-)
> >
> > Dana
> >
> >
> >
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