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MetaCarta Labs On A Stick

MetaCarta Labs has assembled a collection of demos which can be run with no external dependencies. With a MetaCarta Labs USB stick, you simply insert the USB drive into the USB port, and double click the 'run' script for your platform to start up a local web server. Platforms which have been tested are OS X, Linux, and Windows. Python is a prerequisite: Python for Windows is included, for users using that platform. (Python isn't included for any other platform because they should already have it.)

The following downloads include a Python installation for Windows. Even if you don't have Python installed, you should be able to run these. Files are ~23MB.

• Labs on a Stick, Version 1.0 (.tar.gz)
• Labs on a Stick, Version 1.0 (.zip)

The following downloads include everything except the Python install and map tiles. The downloads are ~9MB -- this includes the videos mentioned below.

• Labs on a Stick, Version 0.5 (.tar.gz)
• Labs on a Stick, Version 0.5 (.zip)

Demos marked 'No internet required' will work with no external dependencies: mapping data for these demos is included on the USB stick.

• Demos
  • FeatureServer + OpenLayers editing demo: Draw on a map. This is the main demo when you load up the demo. (No internet required.)
  • JSON editing demo: Create, View, and edit GeoJSON via FeatureServer. (No internet required.)
  • KML Editing Demo: Download, edit, and save KML files from FeatureServer. (No internet required.)
  • GeoSearch Demo: See a demo of MetaCarta's powerful Geographic Text Search engine.
• Videos
  • MetaCarta: The Power of Geographic Search
  • OpenLayers: Mapping Your Data
• Distributions/Downloads:
  • OpenLayers 2.4 RC5
  • TileCache 1.8.1
  • FeatureServer 1.01
  • GeoSearchCore alpha 1
• Data:
  • Vmap0: More than 10,000 tiles of vmap0 data, displayed in the editing demo.
  • Satellite: More than 10,000 tiles of satellite data, displayed in the editing demo.

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