[Qgis-user] Live DVD advice

[Alex Mandel]

Spatialite tends to be a drop in replacement for Postgis for these kinds
of things.

As pointed out, another way to go would be to use
TileStache+Spatialite+CartoCSS(Import to TileMill/Mapbox studio, then
export to Mapnik xml)+Mapnik

Thanks,
Alex

On 06/27/2015 05:19 PM, James Keener wrote:
> 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
>>
>>>