[Freegis-list] Presenting GIS data

[Brent Wood]

AArrgghh! My apologies, sent the last one before I'd finished typing...


> Jürgen Mischker wrote:
> I am looking for a way to present a GIS project in a way like the WMS
> style. I only need some basic functions like zoom, turn on/off layers. 
> The criteria are that the everything should run from a CD under Win, so I
> need a pure client solution, without any installation process and big GIS
> knowledge.  
> Does somebody has any experience doing that...

I have just built a LiveCD with >1Gb of data using QGIS as the GIS data viewer.
Sounds like your needs are pretty similar to mine.

See GIS-Knoppix & the AIT Star CD as other examples.

I used PCLinuxOS as the enabling Linux distro as it makes it so easy:

boot off the PCLinuxOS CD
click the "install to hard disk" icon
   (use a 2Gb swap partition)
remove the CD & reboot
open the package manager & remove all the games & stuff you don't need
install the software you want
install the data
tweak any startup options, (autologon, etc)
 (I created a QGIS project to auto load some data on startup)
open a terminal window & su to root (if you are not root)
type "mklivecd demo1.iso"


done. Burn the iso to a CD & you have a GIS live CD. It uses squashfs to create
a compressed filesystem on the CD, so you can fit about 2Gb onto a standard
700Mb CD ROM.


I believe you could install a Windows binary of QGIS on a CD to run under
Windows from the CD instead, which may be simpler in your case. Check the QGIS
site for info on the Windows version, I haven't used that.


Cheers,

  Brent Wood