Jo Cook
Astun Technology
@archaeogeek
Portable GIS
What's that then?
A pet project of mine
started in 2007
to make it easy to use open source GIS
Why?
RTFM j00 N00b!!!*
*Please read the manual (sir/madam)
It can be hard to install and use
You can't take it home with you
Live DVDs/USBs are sandboxes
Hence Portable GIS!
GIS on a USB
In Windows
With all the hard work done for you
Powered by:
PostGIS/PostgreSQL
QuantumGIS
Grass
Python
OGR/GDAL
Apache
Mapserver
Loader
(Exit to demo)
So how's it done?
Many batch files...
...a hokey GUI scripting language
...and some file extraction software
That's it
So what Sucks about Portable GIS?
Windows User Account Control
ICT Policy
It needs a
FAST
USB stick to run it on
(and it's still quite slow)
Not having enough time to work on it
Not putting it in a repository
What's Next Then?
Anything else?
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Thanks :-)
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