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The GeoBox Wiki

This wiki was created to allow a better cooperation between people interested in the development and maintenance of a successful GIS open source based distribution. Please create a new account to contribute.

GeoBox goals

GeoBox aims to be a open source based distribution with common GIS software pre-installed. But keeping it up-to-date, with recent version of GIS applications and plug-ins, is not easy. So, if each of us can add a small contribution, we will have a successful GIS OSS based distribution.

GeoBox advantage

The major advantage is to reduce the time and effort to get started with OSS based GIS software. After installing the GeoBox, several applications are ready to run. Several services are also ready out of the box.

To teach, the GeoBox is also very interesting. All students can follow the same instructions, to run exercises prepared for the GeoBox.

Running it

The GeoBox can be used as any other Linux distribution. Please choose the one that best fit your environment. Using virtual machines GeoBox can be used even by non Linux systems.

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GeoBox 12.04

ISO GeoBox baseada em Ubuntu 12.04, aprox. 2,2 Gb, de 2012-05-20

2012-05-09
- PostgreSQL 9.1 + PostGIS 2.0
- GDAL 1.9
- openJump 1.5.1
- uDig 1.3.1
- gvSIG 1.11
- Quantum GIS 1.9

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GeoBox 2011 (Spring Edition)

2011-04-26
- With nvidia legacy drivers
- Actualização para o kernel 2.6.32-31
- Actualização do JOSM p/ suporte aos mapas Bing
- Acrescentados alguns servidores WMS no JOSM
- pgRouting (new!)
- Tables for the pgRouting tutorial are included
- Acrescentado os pacotes gpsd gpsd-clients gpsbabel
- Incluído o suporte ECW e MrSIG no GDAL.
- unrar, xmlstarlet, recode, xmlcopyeditor
- Google Earth
- Com pequenas correções
  - MIG (permissões)
  - GeoNetwork (mapa pequeno servido pelo Geoserver local)

After installation, you can switch the interface language, or you can add other languages as well. See How to change the GeoBox interface language.

Installing GeoBox

GeoBox can be installed in four different ways on your computer.

Clean Installation on your hard drive
- Clean Install on your hard drive, option a
In a separate partition
In a virtual machine on your host Operating System
- Installing GeoBox with VirtualBox
- Installing GeoBox on a Mac

Running Geobox from a pendrive

Problems

Installed GIS software in GeoBox

This list is not updated: please check the installation process to see what is in the GeoBox

Kosmo [1]
gvSIG [2]
openJUMP [3]
SAGA GIS [4]
uDig [5]
Josm [6]
QuantumGIS [7]
Editor de Metadados MIG

Server

MapServer
GeoServer
GeoNetwork

Javascript libraries

OpenLayers
GeoExt
Proj4JS

Database management systems

MySQL
PostgreSQL

More on GeoBox languages

GeoBox can be used, improved and by all. Right now, we are more concentrated on the Portuguese language. English is also supported, since it is the common language for most of the internet users.

We started two different Wikis, that we want to keep synchronized as possible. The English and the Portuguese version [8]. Feel free to contribute to one of these languages. If someone is interested in another language (French, Deutsch, Spanish, Italian, etc), please email the Wiki administrator to ask for a new wiki installation.

Supporting GeoBox

Your help is very much appreciated! To help, simply use the GeoBox, and let us know how we can improve it. If you have some spare time to help others, please contribute to this Wiki. Create an account. Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.