Comments on: Portable GIS: GIS on a USB Stick

By: Promotional USB

Promotional USB — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:35:00 +0000

Flash drives are brilliant, more and more can be uploaded onto them, all sorts of applications and you can also make bootable usb sticks. I’m so glad that we live in this current generation because we’ve been able to see the full growth of technology, I just can’t wait to see what the future brings.

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Jasonblue — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:16:48 +0000

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By: Kent Brockman

Kent Brockman — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:10:08 +0000

A lot of GIS programs will run portably. On mine drive I carry: Qauntum GIS, GlobalMapper, USAPhotoMaps, fGIS and GoogleEarth. All work perfect (except GE which hickups on open, but otherwise OK).

Irony, what I would pay for a ArcGIS Lite that would run off a USB and be less bloated.

Also, many of these programs can even run off a burned CD! So take that damn IT Overlords!

@Had toSayIt -LOLz!

By: Petri Nevalainen

Petri Nevalainen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:15:35 +0000

We have developed a GIS software to be used within Non Comercial activities as well as humnatiaran Emergency response. It all runs from a memorystick without installation. It has all main GIS features and support for more than the most common 30 vector formats & 15 rasterfornmats. Its all based on OPEN GIS standards… The GisSystem is Called OASIS (Operational Activities Situation Information System). Best of it all IT’S FREE! For questions or request of a free copy.. Contact: jdonahue@immap.org

By: Duane Wilkins

Duane Wilkins — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:00:50 +0000

ArcExplorer 2.0 also runs fine from a USB stick in some cases.

By: Duane Wilkins

Duane Wilkins — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:59:08 +0000

ArcView 3.x runs beautifully from a USB stick.

By: geospatial_junkie

geospatial_junkie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:28:20 +0000

We’ve have ArcPAD 7 on a USB’s for about 6 months now and it’s been great to have when on the go. I am in the process of “attempting” ArcGIS on a stick. Obviously, the good old licensing server is an issue, however, we are making good progress.

As far as I’m concerned, if we’ve doled out enough cash to feed a small third-world country, I figure the software should be ours to put where we want.

By: Had toSayIt

Had toSayIt — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:08:15 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new IT Overlords

By: J Wallis

J Wallis — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:37:27 +0000

I never saw any GIS on a stick at the ESRI UC….definitely not ArcGIS anyways. I can see how ArcGIS server running on Linux on a stick would be possible….but I’m really after something like the U3 system where the app installs all it needs on the stick but can run without booting to a different OS than the native.

By: James Fee

James Fee — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:05:14 +0000

The nice feature of these apps is that they are usually just “zipped up”. Thus you don’t need to run them on your thumb drive. You can run there from anywhere.