Leith,
I've managed to have GeoMoose run from a USB drive, complete with
MapServer and PHP, nothing get's copied, you run everything from USB,
even Apache. Makes for a nice development environment, since you as a
developer have complete control from front to back for the user
experience. When was the last time a developer had control over what
browser was being used . . .
:c)
Anyway, I need to package the thing up and put it somewhere. It didn't
take me too long to get it all going, but there are currently a lot of
pieces to it, and my plan before posting a package was to make it a
single button start up affiar, just haven't gotten back to it for a
couple of moths. Too much other stuff going on.
bobb
On 6/30/2010 9:19 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:
Bruce Bannerman wrote:
Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination format on the CD?
Hrm, GeoPDF... that's a fun one :)
For Haiti, I took Chris Schmidt's HaitiBrowser [1] and modified it to
run locally [2] by "double-clicking" the index.html file and loading
local tiles. This was required as users didn't even have Admin rights
to run VMWare or install any applications. It's also cross-browser,
lightweight and effective.
You can also checkout MapsOnAStick [3]
All of these read from KML or JSON. There are also JavaScript
Shapefile readers [4].
hope that helps some!
Andrew
[1] http://github.com/crschmidt/haitibrowser
[2] http://github.com/ajturner/haitibrowser
[3] http://github.com/developmentseed/mapsonastick
[4] http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js
Bruce
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoPDF
On 1/07/10 2:53 AM, "Landon Blake" <lbl...@ksninc.com> wrote:
Leith,
I believe what you are proposing may not be as simple as it sounds.
You might be able to create some type of "live CD" that they use
to demo Linux distributions, but otherwise your map viewing
software needs to be installed on the target computer.
There are a few good open source desktop GIS programs that can
display shapefiles. I'd promote OpenJUMP, but QGis is another
program I hear really good things about. MapWindow also runs as a
stand alone desktop program, not just a viewer.
*Landon
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*Subject:* [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD
Hi,
I am new to GIS.
I would like to make a vector map that can be burned onto a CD
then viewed just by running a program on it which copies the map
data and a simple viewer. The dataset is very large (all of New
Zealand) so the viewer needs to be effcient, and I have all the
data in shapefiles.
What would be the best way to do this?
I see that MapWindow lets you build a custom viewer application
around its map viewer, but it would only work on Windows.
Another idea I have is to make some sort of portable web server
that runs GeoServer or MapServer.
Otherwise I could start developing my own custom map viewer that
uses OpenGL/Direct3D/Direct2D or something to make the render
fast with smooth scrolling etc.
This would allow me to develop a data format that is faster for
rendering than shapefiles.
Similar commercial products are
http://www.maptoaster.com/maptoaster-topo-nz/topographical.html
or http://memory-map.com.au/products/maps/topo-nz-std.html
Thanks,
Leith Bade
le...@leithalweapon.geek.nz
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