Blurting out some thoughts on this. Dane Springmeyer worked on a "Installer" thing a long time ago: https://github.com/hotosm/installer Looks at bit old and Mapnik oriented (and Mapnik's moved on a lot!) It makes reference to a "HOT Package" page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/HOT_Package
More recently we discussed the idea in the tech working group http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Working_groups/Technical/meeting_2013-07-01 And I think mapbox have a neat USB vector tile rendering thing up their sleaves: https://vine.co/v/b0DvTPnpPtw We also discussed Ushahidi BRCK which has some storage capacity. Could do map caching tricks. For applications there's a version management challenge. I think an idea we discussed was approaching this as a "build script" problem. You can distribute USB keys with lots of useful and up-to-date software and docs and data if you have a script to pull it all together. But yes portableapps.com is interesting. I used to find the site very useful back when I developed on windows. I notice they have a development section http://portableapps.com/development to help people "portabalize" apps. A lot of the apps currently listed are quite mass-market. Not sure how JOSM and QGIS would fit into their categories, or whether they would want them on the central portableapps.com listings. Also I don't think they have web applications just a XAMPP server, so I guess installing things like field papers would still need to be scripted outside of that framework. Harry ----- Original Message ----- From: maning sambale <[email protected]> To: HOT <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2013, 3:47 Subject: [HOT] HOT stick (Portable Apps) for Training/Workshops Dear HOTties, Has anyone tried building a USB Stick that runs all the needed applications for an OSM Training? For a series of training we will conduct, we are anticipating a lot of different configurations and MS Windows versions. They may use a computer lab or their own laptops. Instead of just giving the participants copies of the software installers, we are thinking of building a PortableApp [0] stick containing all the needed apps and resources. Anyone tried this approach? How is it effective? A few things we want in the stick are: * JOSM including all the necessary plugins (FieldPapers, Notes, DirectUpload, GPXEdit, Building tools, Presets, GeoChat, Measurement, Mirrored downloads, Reverter, Terracer) * GPSBabel * QGIS * PDF reader * Firefox or Chrome * 7-Zip * ClamWin * Notepad++ * Learning materials (either offline or pdf version of learnOSM) * Installers - installers of the above software [0] http://portableapps.com/apps -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
