Hello and thanks for your help, but thats kinda blunt, throw everything into the laptop and call it bigfatmaprepository. Is it possible to detail a bit the software used and what kind of rasters there are in the repository.
Thanks On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:58 AM, carlos sousa <springal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello OSGEO enthusiasts >> >> I would like to create, starting from the point where hard disk space >> is not a problem, a repository of raster maps that can be accessible >> offline, when for exemple, we have to go to the field and do >> georeference tagging and mapping. >> When in the field, there is no broadband internet or it's limited to >> 2.5G communication which is very slow, even for the best OGC server >> available. > > > Assuming you have a laptop, why not just install whatever you want on > it and point your browser to http://localhost/mybigfatmaprepository/ > > I have MapServer, Apache, PostGIS/PostGres, Perl, PDL, OpenLayers, > jQuery and just about everything else installed on my 4.5 lbs MacBook. > I have a little snippet of code in my application so I can turn Google > Maps "on" or "off" as needed before I even launch my programs (I use > Google Maps terrain maps as a base layer). I even have the > documentation for all these programs installed in html form, heck, > even minicpan. No need for Internet at all. The only thing I can > continue to have is unlimited power, but as long as I can turn my > computer on, I can get to all my data. No Internet, no x.5G, no > problem. > >> So, the ideia is to have a repository of maps, like the terrain maps >> offered online by google, for exemple, but I dont like the ideia of >> using the cache of google earth since all my work is done with QGIS >> and Geoserver. >> I know of some programs that are trial based that can do this but the >> images dont have any type of projection information with them. >> I end up with a bunch of images that cant be layed out on my current >> projection system. >> Is there a way of doing some kind of work with qgis in order to get >> this done correctly? >> >> Thanks for any kind of help. >> >> Carlos Sousa >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org > Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org > Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org > Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor > Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science > ======================================================================= > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss