No sooner than I posted the screenshots of MetaCarta on a stick, did I get an email from an ArcGIS user asking how they heck do they get to “install” and play with such a tool. Well as luck would have it, ESRI took care of the hardest part of running MetaCarta Labs on a stick on windows, installing Python. Plus, you don’t have to install a thing so if your IT staff has you workstation locked down tight, you can still play with the tools. The 5 step process is below:
Grab your USB memory stick (you’ll need about 10 megs free)
Then download the zip version of MetaCarta Labs on a stick and extract it on to your USB stick (or anywhere on your hard drive if you wish).
Navigate to the “labs-on-a-stick-0.5″ folder and find the “http_server.py” file and double click on it
After a couple seconds you should see the http server come up inside your command window.
Next all you have to do is follow the directions and navigate to http://localhost:8080/ and view the demos and watch any of the videos.
And of course you can check out FeatureServer, running right there on your USB memory stick.
As Lefty points out, thank ESRI for installing Python for you.
2 responses so far ↓
1
Leandro
// May 29, 2007 at 6:30 am
Hello…
After drawing a line, where is it stored?.
On my PC?
Do I to install a DBMS?
Thaks
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Jason Birch
// May 29, 2007 at 4:59 pm
By default it’s stored in a file-based DBM database on the USB stick
You can modify the FeatureServer config file to store the information in any supported datasource though; they’re listed on the FeatureServer home page:
http://featureserver.org/
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