Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD

2010-07-02 Thread Alexis Agemen
Hi everybody ! As OrbisGIS is written in Java, it may be possible to use it directly on a cd, independently of the OS. I don't know how you could do this, though. And this software support shp reading ;-) I hope that it will help ! Greetings, Alexis.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD

2010-07-01 Thread Christian Willmes
Hello Leith, I did not used this software yet, so I do not know if it is good, but maybe Geopublisher would match your needs? - http://en.geopublishing.org/ From the Website: The Geopublisher 1.4 http://en.geopublishing.org/Geopublisher software allows the creation and publication of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-01 Thread Mike Toews
On 1 July 2010 07:22, Arthur Molina arthurmol...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Isn't GeoPDF a proprietary and payed format? It is an open Standard. Both OGC 08-139r1 and ISO 32000. However, I've never seen it used outside of the Adobe/ESRI scope, so a better question is what OS software either support

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-01 Thread Bob Basques
All, I did some related research on this last moth, trying different packages and ideas about hoe to create GeoPDF(a little easier) and 3DPDFs(harder) while both options for output are indeed open standards, there are only a select few tools to generate the output, and all the (good) ones I

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-07-01 Thread André Cruvinel Resende
Hello, I used the LiveDVD OSGeo to make a presentation yesterday and works just fine!!! http://live.osgeo.org/index.html I know that it´s possible to put on a USB driver too. http://2007.foss4g.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=81 Take a look. André 2010/7/1 Bob Basques

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD

2010-06-30 Thread Landon Blake
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Perhaps use GeoPDF [1] as the destination format on the CD? 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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Andrew Turner
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How to make a map on a CD [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-06-30 Thread Bob Basques
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.