Portable GIS version 4, with QGIS2

[Jo Cook]

Here's a quick and overdue announcement to say that I'm making a new version of Portable GIS available today, including QGIS 2. Consider this one a beta release, since I really want to upgrade PostGIS and GDAL when I get time. Additional upgrades in this version: Astun Technology's Loader (https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader) has been upgraded to the latest version, and Psycopg2 is now included.

Before you click on the link, please take time to read the main Portable GIS page(http://archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html), and also do me the favour of reporting any problems that you find here at the google group, or via Twitter(http://twitter.com/archaeogeek). If you can provide me with a screenshot of an error, and let me know the exact version of Windows that you're using, then I'll do my best to fix. 

You can pick up the beta version here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4k94as57fd3qdup/3RwmQ6_a39). This is a dropbox link, so if it's not available, then I've exceeded my bandwidth for the moment, so please try again later.

I hope to get a release out fairly soon with PostGIS 2.0 and GDAL 1.10, but this is not my day job so bear with me!

[Andrew Zolnai]

Thx Jo for your good work, as ever! you have GDAL 1.9 yet FileGDB doesn't appear as one of the Directory options - only UK.NTF2, US Census TIGRE/Line and Arc/Info Binary Coverage - has anyone else reported this issue? Cheers, Andrew

[Tomas Brunclik]

Thanks for your good work, after a quick test evrything works as expected.
One thing I would sugest is to add launcher button also for GRASS GIS somewhere - it is already installed with the QGIS GRASS-plugin. It is even possible to start the GRASSS GUI from the plugin's commandline, but if one wants to work with GRASS directly, why to have to start QGIS firs, right?

[Christophe C]

I am looking to perform some Grass algorithms within QGIS but can't find the tool box.
Tomas Brunclik said it is possible to call GRASS GUI via QGis commandline plugin : could anyone give more details about it?
Thanks!

[Tomáš Brunclí­k]

Hi,
first you have to make sure GRASS tools are enabled in the plugins. Then
the GRASS toolbar should appear, by default somewhere in the top
horizontal icon bars, I have it moved to vertical position on the right.
I am not in Windows right now, so using some old screenhots:
In the QGIS 1.x (I believe your USB GIS toolbox has QGIS 1.8), the icon
bar looked like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2L2ha0SMJJGVXc3Zzhxb0Y3YnM/view?usp=sharing
In the QGIS 2.x, it looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2L2ha0SMJJGX041RWxXbkFvNlk/view?usp=sharing

Most of the icons would be disabled as in the second screenshot, until
you open or create a GRASS mapset using one of the two first icons.
After the mapset is opened, the GRASS toolbox in QGIS can be opened by
the icon with hammer and branch (third from the end).

The toolbox looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2L2ha0SMJJGMDJnSEVJaUt0WkE/view?usp=sharing

Many GRASS tools (commands) are available through either of the two
module tabs. But any GRASS command can also be run from the commandline.
It is the first module in the module tree. This way you can start even
the full GRASS GUI using the commad g.gui. Or you can run individual
GRASS tools, like r.info, etc. (running without parameters will open GUI
dialog of the GRASS command). The difference is, that this way you
leverage all GRASS commands (not all are covered by the QGIS
GRASS-toolbox modules), all their options (again, not all options are
covered by most QGIS modules) and that you do not need a map layer
loaded into the map to use it as an input of a GRASS tool (the QGIS
modules require input map layers loaded in QGIS map first).

Hope this helps,
Regards,
Tomas Brunclik

Dne 20.10.2014 v 13:39 Christophe C napsal(a):