Portable GIS: 10th Birthday Update

Jo Cook | Astun Technology | @archaeogeek

Portable GIS (noun)

Born 2006 (ish)
"por.ta.ble": capable of being carried or moved about
"g.i.s": geographical information systems
aka: GIS on a stick

What it is:

A self-contained set of the common open source GIS packages, designed to run in windows, from a USB stick
Installed using a single installer file, requiring no additional configuration or setup
Along with some Ordnance Survey Open Data

It also has a control panel for easy access to all the components

Control Panel

What it is not:

A Bootable Drive (like OSGeo Live)
Cross-Platform
Compatible with "portableapps.com"
Small- current installation is a 1GB download and 3GB installed

also not a stealth system

It has many potential uses; like rapid-deployment scenarios, education, training workshops, any time you want to take your work home with you...

DRC

But what software does it contain?

QGIS

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

Apache

Mapserver

Geoserver

Loader

OGR/GDAL

Python

Utilities (pdf reader, text editor, firefox)

Where can I get it?

Download the exe file (~1GB) from:

archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html

What's exciting about the new release (5.6)

QGIS 2.14
Geoserver 2.8
Loader update
...and...

... finally...

A repository for the changed files (in progress) at gitlab.com/archaeogeek/portable-gis (currently private)
Full online developer and user documentation (in progress) at portable-gis-docs.readthedocs.org

Next release

PostgreSQL/PostGIS -> Latest Stable
Next QGIS LTR
Other program updates?

Thanks!

archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html

Jo Cook | Astun Technology | @archaeogeek