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Portable GIS on USB Keys Redux
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on Sunday May 06, @04:41PM
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Previously discussed, the CGAUK blog provide information on GIS software on portable USB keys. From the entry: "I’m probably the last person to realise it’s possible to do this, but I was really pleased to see that both GRASS and PostgreSQL can now be run from a USB stick, along with QGIS, XAMPP (inc Mapserver, OpenLayers, Tilecache), and FWTools.
Before I go any further, I should state that my aims for creating a portable GIS are not so much having a production GIS setup on a stick, because obviously performance and storage are an issue, but it might be useful for demonstration purposes, and I do feel as if the take up of these opensource tools might be more if they were easier to install and came in one handy package."
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Lots of talk about Jo Cook's FOSS4G talk about portable GIS. Spatially Adjusted had a post a few days ago that links to a dedicated page on portable GIS on archaeogeek.. This has lots of implications for projects in developing countries, where computing infrastructure is an issue. Dr Barry Rowlingson's talk at FOSS4G, on Arlat (QGIS for visualzation and mapping integrated with R for spatial stats, using python) is the type of project that could benefit from being portable.
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