Portable GIS
Thanks to a fortuitous post from James Fee, I made a great leap forward with my portable GIS today, which is handy as my FOSS4G talk is number 10 in the list (2pm on the Tuesday, if you’re interested). I’m not going to give the game away as to exactly what’s on the stick (what would I talk about in September otherwise?) but I am at the stage of trying to streamline the configuration for all the programmes and putting a nice front-end on it.
That’s fun for two reasons:
- I’ve used it as an excuse to buy a new laptop (is it bad to say that Vista is actually quite nice?)
- I’ve never done anything with windows batch files before
All fun and games. My poor colleagues are in for a shock next week when I demand that not only do they go out and buy new USB sticks, but they spend their spare time after work testing my masterpiece 
Cool! When do I get mine?
Hey Leif,
If you’ve got a stick of 1GB capacity or more, I’ll send you a zip file (just want to upgrade everything to the latest version first)
Jo
Hi Jo,
Sounds nice.
Do you have a FTP-site from where it is possible to download later this month, when I return from field work in Southern Greenland?
Unfortunately I am not able to visit the Foss4g - I should, though, since there is just opened a flight route from Greenland to Baltimore..
All the best
Karl Zinglersen
Hi Karl,
Thanks for popping by! Hopefully yes, I will be able to release a preliminary version of portable GIS soon, and I will post here when I do to let people know where to find it.
Jo
I am moving into the use of GIS with geoarchaeology and could do with as much information on the state of GIS as possible. Is there any way I could get a copy of your talk and distributables?
Hi Jonathan,
Hopefully my talk will be included in the proceedings for FOSS4G and on the website. I will also host it here, so check back in a month or so (when hopefully I’ll have recovered). If you’re moving into this area it would be cool to talk anyhow- so do get in touch!
Jo
Jo,
Saw you at FOSS4G today. Great topic. I cannot find where you have the files for download though. Where can I obtain your zip file?
Also I have been using pstart, but will be checking out AutoIt.
Farley
Hey Farley,
Thanks for coming to the talk! The files aren’t actually ready for download just yet because I have to find somewhere to host them- 800MB will strangle the bandwidth for this site so it will have to be sourceforge. Before I can do that I have to sort out the licensing of a few components- in particular the menu. If you want to see the original form of that- go to dailycupoftech and look for the USB drive menu. That’s where I got it from originally. Please check back on the blog for updates about portable gis- I hope I can get moving on the hosting and licensing soon then I will get it online.
Thanks again for coming along to the talk,
Jo