At Nicolas' Brittany mapping party we followed the Windows installation instructions / work flow under Ubuntu and got everything working without too much trouble. I did say I'd start on a Ubuntu guide, but got distracted. If it's something people want, however, I could give it a go one weekend.
(Apologies, this email doesn't have much to do with the original topic..) Cheers, Joseph On 9 July 2011 11:02, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
