Hi Reinier, We actually have a package with everything downloaded already to install. This is currently a Windows set-up but that is usually what people show up with.
It would be good to get an offline set-up that worked with Ubuntu too though. -Kate On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would surely recommend (k)ubuntu. All mentioned software packages are > available through the package manager so you dont have to visit a gazillion > websites to download the latest version, if you have multiple computers to > install, and not a lot of bandwidth, you can cache software & updates, no > virusses, no seperate drivers to install, it works, > > And its free. > > what else can you wish for? > > rgds, > > Reinier > >> Hi Brian, > >> > >> Ideally all key HOT software should/can run decently on a constrained >> setup - like a 4-5 year old PC with Windows that has one processor and only >> 512 MB memory. This is suboptimal of course, but even with this setup you >> should be able to say... use JOSM to download a *small* chunck of OSM data >> and edit it and upload, use GPSBabel to convert GPS data to GPX, and you >> should be able to import a small amount (like under 50 MB extract) of osm >> data into postgis and use basic functions of QGIS. > >> > >> That said, if you are getting a new machine, a good setup would be 2 >> cores, 2-4 GB Ram. > >> > >> Beyond that we'd have to know more about your aspirations because specs >> must increase drastically with the amount of OSM data you wish to handle at >> any time. > >> > >> Dane > >> > >> On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Brian Wolford wrote: > >> > >> > Hello, > >> > > >> > I was wondering if anybody out there could help me out real quick with >> > suggested system requirements for computers running the softwares on the >> > HOT_kit. Postgres, postGIS, Qgis, ect... > >> > > >> > RAM, disk space, CPU details... > >> > > >> > What specifications would be adequate and which would be ideal. > >> > > >> > If anyone out there is familiar with these issues I'd appreciate it. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > -Brian Wolford > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > HOT mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> HOT mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >> > > -- > > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 758 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > http://twitter.com/batje > > http://twitter.com/mapuganda > > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
