[Qgis-user] Live DVD advice

[James Keener]

Ah, if you're already using mapserver, I'd see about just exporting the
PostGIS db as a shapefile.  Are you worried it'll be too large/too slow?

Also, the OSM styles are available as CartoCSS, which is supported by
other tilers too.

Jim

On 06/27/2015 08:13 PM, Brent Wood wrote:
> Thanks James,
> 
> I have looked at
> http://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_ogc/ogc_server_support.html?highlight=server
>  
> which seems like it would work - but I'd still need to avoid Postgis as
> the data source (read only filesystem) and sort out the rendering styles
> for use with QGIS - it may be possible to export the OSM Postgis tables
> as shapefiles & use those as the data source, but I don't know how to go
> about adapting the rendering styles, which is a large part of the value
> of OSM - data plus style.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Brent
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> 
> Could you use QGIS Server?  It'd take a qgs file and the data it needs
> (which can be any input type QGIS uses, including shapefiles and
> spatialite dbs along with PostGIS).
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/27/2015 07:46 PM, Brent Wood wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking to build a LiveDVD/USB key with QGIS, OSM base layer and web
>> services for New Zealand.
>>
>> Our road & topo data is very up to date in OSM, and we have numerous
>> government (central, regional & local) agencies and others providing
>> data via OGC services, so I'm hoping the system will have embedded OSM,
>> and pre-loaded OGC servers to connect to, as well as some QGIS plugins
>> specific to New Zealand.
>>
>> The disk/key is intended for schools & demonstrations showing FOSS, FOSS
>> GIS, Open Data and Open Standards, focused on NZ data.
>>
>> Some years ago I built a laptop system demo'ed at several local schools
>> which worked OK, with mapserver serving OSM via WMS direct from Postgis.
>> NZ is small enough that the data could be rendered dynamically from the
>> vector data in a reasonably interactive system.
>>
>> I can't reasonably use Postgis on a read only filesystem, and all the
>> later guides assume that tiles will be used. Does anyone have any advice
>> as to how I might best do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brent Wood
> 
>>
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