Live GIS Disc Testing
This page describes how to test each application installed on the Live GIS Disc. Application test steps describe how an Ubuntu user who is unfamiliar an application can try it out and confirm that everything has been installed correctly within 5 minutes. Test Results document when the application was last verified to be working.
This page is maintained at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing and copied onto each release of the LiveDVD.
- Please try to move the app list into more of an alphabetical order ...
template
- Tests written for
- .package. [version], arramgong [version]
- Test Description last updated
- .date.
- Steps
Ideally, steps will reference Quick Start documentation, otherwise use following:
- .action.
- Verify that ...
- Eg: From menu, select GeoSpatial->Application->Start
- Eg: Verify that a browser opens at url: http://localhost:... and shows the application start page.
- Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)
- test results from .date.
- Run by: FirstName LastName
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
- Version: distribution version: eg: arramagong 3.0 rc2
- Results: Pass, Pass with issues, Fail
- link to bug reports
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
geopublishing (geopublisher and atlasstyler)
- Tests written for
- Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.4, Arramgong 3.0rc5
- Test Description last updated
- 12.03.2010
- Steps
- Go to applications->education-> and open Geopublishing documentation
- Verify that the green page from file:///usr/share/doc/geopublishing/index.html open in a browser
- Scroll to the bottom and click the demo atlas.
- Unzip it do your Desktop
- Go to applications->education-> and start Geopublisher
- Load the atlas.gpa from your Desktop/ChartDemoAtlas
- Verify that Geopublisher load the atlas. You should see a triparted GUI with a map-pool, data-pool and menu area.
- Select File->Export and follow the wizard..
- export online and offline version of the atlas to a new directory Desktop/ChartAtlasExported
- When the export has finished, click the "open folder" button
- Close Geopublisher
- Go into the Desktop/ChartAtlasExported/DISK folder and run start.sh
- Verify that an atlas opens
- Verify that you see a "Charts available" button at the top right
- Verify that clicking selecting the chart opens a chart window
Let that be the basic testing for Geopublisher now.
- test results from 16 March 2010
- Run by: Stefan Tzeggai
- System: kvm, 600Mb RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
- Version: arramagong 3.0 rc5
- Results: Pass with issues. Two minor problems:
- after export the "open folder" button doesn't work, because xubuntu doesn't support that java desktop integation. but the folder can be openen manually.
- Second problem is, that start.sh has to be set executable manually after export.
geoserver
- Tests written for
- GeoServer 2.0.1, arramagong 3.0rc4
- Test Description last updated
- 13 March 2010
- Steps
- Select the "Start GeoServer" icon.
- Wait ~ 60 seconds for GeoServer to start.
- Verify the GeoServer web page opens at http://localhost:8082/geoserver/web
- In the firefox browser, click on "Layer Preview", wait ~ 30 secs
- Verify you get a list of map layers
- Select the 'OpenLayers' link on one of the layers (say the TOPP:States)
- Verify you should see a web page with sample data in an interactive map
- test results from 13 March 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
- Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
- Results: Pass
gvSIG
- Tests written for
- gvSIG 1.9 (BN1253), arramgong 3.0rc2
- Test Description last updated
- 2010/03/10
- Steps
- Go to applications->education and start gvSIG
- Verify that gvSIG starts correctly
- Create a new view and add some shapefiles from /usr/local/share/mapserver/demos/itasca/data
- Verify that the shapefiles are correctly added to the view
- Create a new view and add any of the two TIFF files from /usr/local/share/mapserver/demos/itasca/data
- Verify that the raster files are correctly loaded to the view
- If you have Internet access, try to add a WMS layer from the combo list (i.e. the NASA JPL server)
- Verify that a WMS layer can be accessed
- Open the sample project included in the LiveDVD at /usr/local/share/gisvm/app-data/gvsig/sample-project.gvp
- Verify the project loads all the data and layouts configured are available.
- You can also try to access any of the other data available from the LiveDVD like the PostGIS Data, or WxS services by the map servers configured
- This tests are related with the correct functioning of the other software installed on the LiveDVD
- Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)
- test results from 2010/03/10
- Run by: Jorge Sanz
- System: Sun Virtual Box 3.1.4, with 700MB RAM for the VM
- Version: distribution version: arramagong 3.0 rc2
- Results: Passed all tests, well I wrote them at this session ;-)
geomajas
- Tests written for
- Geomajas 1.4.2, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
- Test Description last updated
- 9 March 2010
- Steps
- Click desktop icon "Start Geomajas" which will start the Geomajas startup script. This will in turn start up a Tomcat server.
- Verify firefox opens a new tab at the page http://localhost:3420/geomajas-tutorial/applications/tutorial/html/
- Click on the "Start demo!" link for the Attributes & Features demo.
- Verify that a sample demo page has opened with an application, showing the provinces of Belgium.
- Doubleclick on one of the rows in the attribute table bottom right.
- Verify that a floating window appears, showing the rows' contents in more detail.
- Click on the desktop icon "Stop Geomajas".
- Verify that the Tomcat server that runs Geomajas has stopped.
- This can be done by refreshing the page. Firefox should give a warning that it is unable to connect.
- test results from 9 March 2010
- Run by: Pieter De Graef
- System: Virtualbox, ~512MB RAM, on Windows XP
- Version: distribution version: arramagong-3.0rc2
- Results: Pass
geonetwork
- Tests written for
- Geonetwork, LiveDVD 3.0
- Test Description last updated
- 14 March 2010
- Steps
- Click icon "Start Geonetwork" - wait until the server intializes (see load graph in the upper right hand corner)
- open FireFox http://localhost:8880
- you should see a list of active URLs, choose /geonetwork
- Result
- see the opening page of the Geonetwork server
deegree
- Tests written for
- deegree 2.3, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
- Test Description last updated
- 25 June 2010
- Steps
- Click desktop icon "start deegree" which will run "catalina.sh start".
- Verify firefox opens a new tab at the page http://localhost:8081/
- Click the service links ("deegree-wms", "deegree-wfs", "deegree-wcs") in top left box ("deegree Web Applications").
- Verify they open test pages for WMS, WFS, and WCS. These pages will contain links to
- "GetCapabilities" (for each of the services)
- "Test WMS", "Test WFS" or "Test WCS" (depending on the chosen service)
- a link for the "Generic Client", a client for sending XML requests (http post) to the services.
- Click on "TestW*S"
- Verify you get either maps or xml fragments.
- TestWMS will contain some images (results of WMS requests), and links for further KVP requests (http get).
- TestWFS will open a page with several links for WFS requests (KVP). Either one will return XML fragments. There is also a link to the generic client.
- TestWCS will open a page with several links for WCS requests (KVP). Either one will return XML fragments.
- Click the client link ("deegree iGeoPortal") in top left box ("deegree Web Applications").
- Verify this will open a new tab with a list of available WebMapContexts. Either one of these links (Utah, SaltLakeCity or Playground) should open a full working portal in this tab. Once the WMC is loaded you may switch to the other WMCs by using the drop down box labled "Theme selection"
- Click on the desktop icon "stop deegree"
- Verify the deegree-tomcat process is stopped.
- click any of the links previously used: you will get a "Failed to Connect" message from firefox.
- open a terminal and try
ps fax | grep deegree
. You should not get any results other than the grep itself.
- Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)
- test results from 4 March 2010
- Run by: Judit Mays
- System: Virtualbox, ~600MB RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
- Version: distribution version: arramagong-3.0rc2
- Results: Pass
kosmo
- Tests written for
- Kosmo 2.0 RC1, LiveDVD 3.0
- Test Description last updated
- 18 March 2010
- Theming layer with PostGIS backend
- Select Geospatial > Desktop GIS > Kosmo in order to start Kosmo - Desktop
- In the welcome dialog, select the option "With a new view" inside the "Create a new project" panel and click Ok
- In the "Spatial Reference System selection" dialog, press the "..." button in order to select the view SRS
- Select "EPSG" as Type
- Enter 2270 in the textfield and click "Search" button; select the CRS given and click the Ok button
- Click Ok again to set EPSG:2270 as the current view projection
- In the main menu "View", select the option "Load Dataset..."
- Select as Format -> "Database" (at the top-left corner) and "PostGIS" as database type
- Enter Database Name: medford User Name: user Password: user and click the "Connect" button
- Scroll down, check the box to the left of public.medford_zoning and click the Ok button
- Select the medford_zoning layer at left under 'Working' and click the checkbox to make it visible
- Right-click on the 'medford_zoning' layer and choose Simbology > Change Styles...
- Select the "Colour Theming" tab; click the "Enable colour theming" checkbox
- Choose Attribute => zoning and click the Ok button to apply the changes
- You should see the zoning areas of Medford coloured by attribute in the map
Shapefile and image loading
- Select Geospatial > Desktop GIS > Kosmo in order to start Kosmo - Desktop
- In the welcome dialog, select the option "With a new view" inside the "Create a new project" panel and click Ok
- Repeat the steps described in the test "Layer Theme with PostGIS backend", but selecting EPSG:26915 as the view projection
- In the main menu "View", select the option "Load Dataset..."
- Select as Format -> "Image file" and navigate to /home/user/data/mapserver/demos/itasca/ (or data/mapserver/demos/itasca/ if it starts at the home/user directory)
- Select the directory "data" in order to load all the tiffs inside it as a mosaic and press the Ok button
- Select the data layer at left under 'Working' and click the checkbox to make it visible
- Select as Format -> "Shapefile" and navigate inside data directory
- Select all the shapefiles and press the Ok button in order to load them
- Check that all the shapefiles have been loaded on the layer tree at the left. Make them visible by clicking on the checkbox of each one
test results from 18 March 2010
Run by: Sergio Baños
System: VirtualBox 3.1.4 with Guest additions, 3Gb RAM, on Windows Vista
Version: 3.0 rc5
Results: Pass
udig
- Tests written for
- udig , arramgong 3.0rc5
- Test Description last updated
- 18 March 2010
- Steps
- open UDig
- Verify you see a Welcome screen
- Close the Welcome display. (Note if you don't close this display, then you can't load layers later on)
- from the Layer menu, choose "Add..."
- Choose Files from /home/user/data/udig/udig-data/data-v1_2/
- select bc_border.shp
- you may also select others, for example all shp files starting with bc_
- click OK
- Verify you see Canadian British Columbia data
- test results from 14 March 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
- Version: distribution version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
- Results: Pass with issues
- Pass with issues:
- If the Welcome screen is not closed, then trying to load a shapefile as described takes the user to a rolling "loading" icon, and message "Adding layers to map" however, it doesn't progress past this.
openjump
- Tests written for
- OpenJUMP, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
- Test Description last updated
- 8 March 2010
- Layer Theme with PostGIS backend
- Open OpenJUMP
- under the File menu select 'Open...'
- select Data Store Layer
- on the Connection line, click on the database icon (far right)
- click on Add
- enter Name: medford Server: localhost Port: 5432 Instance: medford User: user Password: user
- click OK; click OK in the parent dialog box; you should be back in the Data Store Layer dialog
- from the Dataset: menu choose 'medford_zoning'; click Finish
- select the medford zoning layer at left under 'Working'
- click on the Palette Icon in the menu bar
- select the 'Colour Theming' tab; click 'Enable colour theming' checkbox
- choose Attribute => zoning
- choose a colour theme; click 'OK' to dismiss the dialog
- you should see the zoning areas of Medford in various colours
postgis
- Tests written for
- PostGIS, arramagong 2.0/3.0-rc2
- Test Description last updated
- 4 March 2010
- Spatial Query with the Graphical Query Builder helper
- Open PGAdmin III from the Development menu
- double-click on 'local'
- under Databases, double-click on medford
- open 'schemas'
- open 'public'
- select 'Tables', click on the 'Execute SQL' Icon above (it has a pencil in it)
- expand the window and click on 'Graphical Query Builder'
- open 'Schemas', double-click on 'public'
- click and drag 'medford_wards' to the work area on the right
- click and drag 'jacksonco_schools' to the work area on the right
- choose 'jacksonco_schools' name, address, city and students
- choose 'medford_wards' council_me (meaning council members)
- click and drag from the_geom in 'medford_wards' to the_geom in 'jacksonco_schools' (you should see a solid line form with an '=' in it)
- click on the 'SQL Editor' tab above, to navigate away from the Graphical Query Builder
- edit the WHERE line to say
ST_Contains( medford_wards.the_geom, jacksonco_schools.the_geom )
- add an additional line
ORDER BY medford_wards.council_me, jacksonco_schools.students DESC;
- the entire query ends with one semicolon ';'
- click on the 'execute query' icon above (a green triangle pointing to the right) you should see a list of council districts, schools, school sizes and the names of council members for each district as a result
- test results from 4 March 2010
- Run by: Brian Hamlin
- System: Virtualbox, 1024mb RAM, on debian 5.03 base
- Version: distribution version: arramagong-3.0rc2
- Results: user tested, passed in less than 5 minutes with no previous experience
- New Database
$ createdb -T template_postgis osm_barcelona $ osm2pgsql -d osm_barcelona /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2
Then try to view it in QGIS.
spatialite
- Tests written for
- spatialite, LiveDVD 3.0
- Last updated
- 14 March 2010
- Steps
- Open a terminal
spatialite /usr/local/share/spatialite/regions.sqlite select r.NOME_REG, a.Nome from Aeroporti a, reg2008_s r where CONTAINS( r.Geometry, a.Geometry ) order by r.NOME_REG;
- a graphical view of the same data
- Run spatialite-gis
open file /usr/local/share/spatialite/regions.sqlite
- Result - test please
You should see a set of Airports in Italy
pgrouting
- Tests written for
- pgRouting SVN trunk revision 356, arramagong 2.0/3.0
- Last updated
- March 2010
- Steps
- Open a terminal
sudo -u user psql -c "SELECT gid, AsText(the_geom) AS the_geom FROM dijkstra_sp_delta('sydney', 101, 114, 0.003)" sydney sudo -u user psql -c "SELECT gid, AsText(the_geom) AS the_geom FROM astar_sp_delta('sydney', 101, 114, 0.003)" sydney sudo -u user psql -c "SELECT gid, AsText(the_geom) AS the_geom FROM shootingstar_sp('sydney', 8, 24, 0.1, 'length', true, true)" sydney
After each command you should see some output which is not hopefully 'library not found' error.
osm
- JOSM
- File → Open → /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2
- Merkaartor
- Start it up from the Navigation and Maps menu
- Click the "Download" button at the top left
- Zoom in on Mataro just to the north of Barcelona until one zoom level past where you can read the street names, and click [ok] to start the download
- Left-click-drag to pan, mouse wheel to zoom
- Click on a road, see its attributes come up
- now it's Right-click-drag to pan, mouse wheel to zoom
- In the Layers list in the top-left right-click on "Map - None" and select "Yahoo!"
- Click the little box to the left of "Map - Yahoo!" to enable the eyeball
- Behold the satellite image underlay
- Osmarender
- Open up Merkaartor again
- When satellite image comes up, click the "Download More" button
- Once the streets come up do File → Export → OSM (XML)
- Select "All visible", filename ~/test.osm
- Quit Merkaartor
- Open a terminal, then:
osmarender test.osm
- [whiz-bang-whirl]
- After some time it should finish leaving a test.svg file behind
- Open the test.svg file in Inkscape or Firefox to view
inkscape test.svg
- In inkscape it's middle-click-drag to pan, "+" key to zoom in
- In Firefox use Ctrl-+ to zoom in
- Gosmore
- Open a terminal
- Import data with:
bzip2 -dc /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2 | gosmore rebuild
- Click on the "-" in the bottom-right of the map canvas until you see the city, then left click to center on downtown, mouse wheel up to zoom in
- That's about it!
mapserver
- Tests written for
- MapServer 5.6.3, OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- 30 June 2010
- Steps
- Select the "MapServer" icon.
- Wait a few seconds for FireFox to start.
- Verify the MapServer web page opens at file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapserver_description.html
- In the firefox browser, scroll down to "MapServer Demo" section and click on "Itasca".
- Select "Basic Application" and click on "Initialize".
- Verify you get a map.
- Select the "Query multiple features" tool on the right of the page and click somewhere on the map.
- Verify you get a list of features.
- THE GMAP DEMO HAS BEEN REMOVE IN 4.0 ALPHA4, IT IS NOT YET COMPATIBLE WITH PHP 5.3
Return to the the initial MapServer web page, file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapserver_description.html , scroll down to "MapServer Demo" section and click on "GMap".
Verify you get a map and a legend with icons rendered.
- Return to the the initial MapServer web page, file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapserver_description.html on the initial MapServer web page, scroll down to "MapServer Documentation" section.
- Verify that the documentation version is appropriate versus the MapServer version.
- test results from 14 March 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.0 base
- Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
- Results: Pass with issues
- Documentation refers to the older 5.4 version
geokettle
- Tests written for
- GeoKettle 3.2.0-20090609
- Last updated
- March 2010
- Steps
- Launch GeoKettle.
- Verify you get a window prompting you to select a repository.
- On the "Select a repository" dialog, choose "No repository".
- Verify the GeoKettle application is opened.
- Close any startup tips dialog.
- Select File-> Open
- Select /opt/geokettle/samples/transformations/geokettle/intersection.ktr
- Verify you see the "intersection" transformation in the work area, with a big yellow comment box and some step icons.
- Run the transformation in preview mode
- Select Transformation menu -> Preview
- Choose the "Intersecting rows" step (to view the rows that are outputted by that step)
- then click on Quick Launch.
- Verify you see the result in the "Examine preview data" dialog (two rows with four columns: GEOM1_ID, geom1, GEOM2_ID, geom2. The geom1 and geom2 fields should contain MULTIPOLYGON WKT geometries).
- test results from 13 March 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
- Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4
- Results: Pass
gmt
There are 29 example jobs built in, and a script to run them all:
- Open a terminal
cp -r /usr/share/doc/gmt-examples/examples/ gmt-examples cd gmt-examples/ ./do_examples.sh
[whiz .. bang .. whirl]
View results: (type 'q' to quit gv)
for PLOT in `find . -name *.ps` ; do echo "$PLOT" gv "$PLOT" done
Cleanup:
cd .. rm -rf gmt-examples/
grass
- Tests written for
- grass 6.4.0rc5, arramagong 2.0/3.0
- Last updated
- March 2010
- Steps
- Double click on the GRASS desktop icon
- Verify you see a slick "Welcome to GRASS" GUI
- Select Spearfish60 for location, User1 for mapset
- Click on [Start Grass]
- In the Layer Manager GUI window add a raster layer
- On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a checkerboard
- On map to be displayed pull down the list and select elevation.dem
- from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]
- In the Layer Manager GUI window add a vector layer
- On the toolbar click the icon with a + and a "V" line
- For input map name pull down the list and select roads from the PERMANENT mapset and click [ok]
- Over in the Map Display window toolbar click on the eyeball icon to render
- Verify you see the maps displayed
- See also
- (North Carolina dataset is already installed in grassdata/)
- More details in the on-disc help page
- http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/helptext.html
- test results from 14 March 2010.
- Run by: John Tate
- System: VirtualBox v3.0.8_OSE r53138, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
- Version: arramagong vm 3.0 rc4
- Results: Pass (including extended test at ...wiki/HowToTestGrass6)
qgis
- FIXME
- These instructions are not tested! Just off the top of my head.
- open GeoTiff
- where on the disc is one?
- (if needed geotiff and shapefile export could be added to the GRASS testing procedure to make some)
- open PostGIS data I
- From the menu: Layer → Add PostGIS Layer ...
- PostgreSQL Connections: [New]
Name: medford Host: localhost Database: medford Port: 5432 username: user password: user SSL Mode: allow
Test Connect should show success select sample point, line and poly layers view selected data
- open PostGIS data
- (run the PostGIS test first so that the osm_barcelona DB exists!)
- From the menu: Layer → Add PostGIS Layer ...
- PostgreSQL Connections: [New]
Name: ________ "OpenStreetMap Import" Database: ____ "osm_barcelona"
- Click on [Test Connect], with luck you will get a message that the connection to the database was successful.
- Click [Ok] to close the New Database window.
- Click on [Connect] in the top left of the Add PostGIS Table window. You should see a listing of tables come up.
- Click on all of the table names to highlight them.
- Click on [Add] at the bottom.
- After some moments you should see the data displayed in the main map canvas.
- Zoom, pan, query as you like.
This should at least prove to you that the database is correctly populated and running.
- open shapefile
- where on the disc is one?
- From the menu: Layer → Add Vector Layer ...
- Do not select New Vector Layer ... (that's for creating new data, not opening existing data)
- Dataset: [Browse]
- ? where on disc ?
- Ctrl-click on each of the *.shp files in that directory, then click [Open] and finally [Ok]
- After some momements you should see the data displayed in the main map canvas.
- Because the some of the shapefiles use a different map projection than the PostGIS database, things may not line up exactly. In the Settings → Projection Properties, Coordinate Reference System tab, you can tick the [•] Enable 'on the fly' CRS transformation box to overlay them. Be warned that this is computationally expensive and the layer may need to have its CRS set manually.
- Zoom, pan, query as you like. Drag layer names up and down in the left-pane list to change their position in the stack.
- open OSM data
- need to enable plugin?
- open /usr/local/share/osm/Barcelona.osm.bz2
- Test the GRASS plugin
- (it's installed, right?)
- Go menu "Plugins, Pluginmanager, activate "GRASS plugin", OK button: a set of new buttons should appear
- open location/mapset → ~/grassdata/spearfish90/PERMANENT
- click "Add GRASS raster layer" button, select "elevation" map
- click "Add GRASS raster layer" button, select "elevation_shade" map
- click right mouse button in legend on "elevation_shade" map, move transparency to 40%
- click "Add GRASS vector layer" button, select "roadsmajor" map, select layer "1-line" (level 1 is the topological level), OK
mapnik
see file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/doc/mapnik_description.html Mapnik Description
maptiler
- Tests written for
- maptiler 1.0 all versions
- Test Description last updated
- 11.3.2010
- Steps
- you need an GeoTIFF or other raster geodata to test the functionality. So download for example this: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/data/gtiff/utm.tif (when you use Firefox it will automatically save the files into ~/Downloads).
- start MapTiler: click on "Applications" -> "Graphics" -> "MapTiler"
- in the MapTiler application select on the first page "Google Maps compatible" tiles and click "Continue"
- in the second page of wizard add the tiff, it should be ~/Downloads/utm.tif and click "Continue"
- continue trough all other steps in the wizard (default options are fine) and then start "Render"
- when the rendering is finished you will see a link to the directory with tiles, click to open it (it opens in Firefox as a directory)
- open the "googlemaps.html", you should see a black&white overlay displayed on top of Google Maps hybrid layer. You can also open "openlayers.html" to see another presentation of the results.
- Verify that ...
- MapTiler application starts without problems when clicked on the icon
- When you press on "Render" applications starts the processing and does not report any error.
Alternative "real" geodata for testing are for example USGS maps or NOAA RNCs.
- test results from 11.3.2010
- Run by: Klokan Petr Pridal
- System: VMWare Fusion, 512MB RAM in virtual machine, on MacOSX Leopard
- Version: arramagong livedvd 3.0 rc4
- Results: Pass
Another way to try it:
- Start MapTiler by clicking the icon on the Desktop
- Load in the second step example raster GEODATA (with georerence/srs)
- Go trough all the steps with 'Next' up to the Render
- Once the render is finished you can click in the GUI to open a folder with tiles. When you open googlemaps.html or openlayers.html then you see your geodata warped to the overlay of popular interactive web maps as Google Maps.
The map tiles are displayed directly from your disk. To publish the map to Internet just upload the folder with tiles to any webserver or Amazon S3"
marble
- Tested against ver 2.0
- Click on the desktop icon
- If you have used Google Earth before you should be able to figure this one out without much difficulty.
- In the Settings menu select full-screen mode
- Explore ...
- In the bottom-left corner of the program window there is a subtle tab called "Map View". Click on it.
- Select another map (e.g. 'Precipitation (July)')
- Explore some more ...
octave
- Open a terminal
- Start program by typing "octave" at the prompt
% Which way to Barcelona from Sydney? sydney = [-33.8750 151.2005] barcelona = [41+23/60 2+11/60] dirn = azimuth(sydney, barcelona); deg_symb = 176; disp(['Heading: ' num2str(dirn) deg_symb])
% How far's the trip? (roughly!) system('proj -le') wgs84_a = 6378137.0 % major radius of the Earth, in meters dist_deg = distance(sydney, barcelona) dist_meters = pi * wgs84_a * (dist_deg / 360.0) disp(['Distance: ' num2str(dist_meters / 1000) ' km'])
Type "exit" to quit.
opencpn
- Activate data
- Open a terminal
- Type "opencpn_noaa_agreement.sh" at the prompt
- Run program
(assuming your GPS is not plugged in and gpsd is not running)
- Double click the OpenCPN icon on the desktop or type "opencpn" at a terminal
- Left-click recenters the view
- Left-click-drag pans the view
- Mouse-wheel zooms in/out
- The blue bars in the bottom show previews of overlapping raster maps and clicking on them switches to them. The green buttons switch to vectorial charts.
- Right click on the map canvas to get a menu, select "Go to here".
- At this point if you have your auto-pilot interfaced GPS plugged in you should feel your boat/airplane change course. If not, you'll see a red arrow and the destination target blinking anyway but will have make your own arrangements for getting there.
- More details in the on-disc help page
- and specifically the Getting Started help page.
gpsdrive
- (copied from install_gpsdrive.sh)
- More details in the on-disc help page
Testing
If no GPS is plugged in
- Double click on the GpsDrive desktop icon
- You should see a map of downtown Barcelona, after about 10 seconds a waypoint marker for the Convention Centre should appear.
- Set the map scale to 1:150,000 either by dragging the slider at the bottom or by using the +,- buttons (not magnifying glass). After a moment you should see all 3 FOSS4G 2010 venues.
- Enter Explore Mode by pressing the "e" key or in the Map Control button.
- Use the arrow keys or left mouse button to move off screen.
- Try clicking on the Workshop venue and mouse-wheel to zoom in on it
- Right click to set destination and leave Explore Mode
- Click on the "Find" button on the left
- Set "maximum distance" to 1.0 km
- Click the POI-Types drop down menu and select Food → Restaurant → Restaurant
- Click the Find button in the top right
- Click on the nearest restaurant, and "Select Target" in the bottom right
- Make your way there and enjoy a nice meal
Downloading maps
- Change the scale setting to 1:1,000,000 you should see the limits of the PostGIS/Mapnik/OpenStreetMaps road database for the conference area.
- Click the "Map Control" button on the left hand side, and turn off Mapnik Mode.
- You should now see a continental image
- Enter Explore Mode again ("e") and left click on an island in the Med
- In the top-left menu, pick Options → Map → Download
- Map source: NASA LANDSAT, Scale: 1:500,000, [Download Map]
- When download is complete click [ok] then change the preferred scale slider to 1:500,000
- This will be of more use in remote areas.
- Explore to the coast, click on an airport, headland, or some other conspicuous feature. You might want to use the magnifying glass buttons to zoom in on it better. Use a right click set the target on some other conspicuous feature nearby then demagnify back out.
- Options -> Map -> Download
- Map source: OpenStreetMap, Scale: 1:40,000, left-click on map to center the green preview over your target and what looks like a populated area.
- [Download Map]
- When download is complete click [ok] then change the preferred scale slider to 1:40,000 and you should see a road map. This will be more interesting in built up areas.
Overlay a GPX track
- If you have a GPX track file lying around ...
- Options -> Import -> GPX track
- Hidden folders are hidden in the file picker, but just start typing ~/.gpsdrive and hit enter. You should then see the tracks/ directory and be able to load
- A red trace should appear
If a GPS is plugged in
- Make sure gpsd is running by starting "xgps" from the command line.
- The program will automatically detect gpsd and jump to your current position. This should bring up a continental map as you won't have any map tiles downloaded for your area yet.
- See the above "Downloading Maps" section to get some local tiles.
- If you have a local GPX track of some roads try loading that and making sure everything lines up, as detailed in the above "Overlay a GPX track" section.
That's it.
mb-system
- Open a terminal
cd /usr/local/mbsystem/examples/
List summary information about the contents of some bathymetric data files:
cd mbinfo/ ./mbinfo.cmd
Grid some sample data and then view it:
cd ../mbm_plot/ ./mbm_plot_5.cmd # which creates this script: ./mbm_plot_test5.cmd
You should now see a nice plot of the seafloor off Baja California.
- (this also acts as a test of the GMT plotting package)
mapfish
- Tests written for
- mapfish 1.2, arramgong 3.0
- Test Description last updated
- 2 April 2010
- Steps
- Make sure you have a working internet connection
- Double click on the Mapfish icon on the desktop
- Verify that a browser opens after a few seconds showing a map of the southwestern pacific
- Click the magnifying glass just under the word "Map" at the top of the map.
- Zoom in on Sydney
- Explore
- test results from 2 April 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on windows XP base
- Version: arramagong 3.0
- Results: Pass with issues
- The application requires an internet connection to work. The liveDVD should work without an internet connection, so it should access maps from a local WMS or similar.
- The application doesn't show off any of the mapfish server functionality, making it difficult to sell its benefits over Openlayers.
R
- double click on the R Icon
- at the command line, type demo(graphics) and hit return
- follow the prompt and watch the target window for examples
If it is possible please add steps here to test the included geostats packages, they are both more interesting and more likely to have problems in the build. tx
- e.g. something with r-cran-maps(.deb), gstat, sp, rgdal, or spgrass6 ?
#Load a library library(sp) #list the demos available demo() #Run the demo from the sp package #This will step you through several examples of code and the resulting plots demo(gallery)
Some examples to try here:
ossim
- Tests written for
- Ossim 1.8, arramagong 3.0rc4 + fixes
- Test Description last updated
- 16 March 2010
- Steps
- Imagelinker
- Start Imagelinker from its icon from the directory "Spatial Tools" on the desktop
- Select the project file, using File -> Open Project -> /home/user/data/ossim/ossim_data/landsatrgb.prj
- Go to the menu bar -> window -> tile
- Select an image window -> select the pan icon -> click on the image -> press the button "propagate"
- Verify you see a 3 gray satelite images.
- OssimPlanet
- Start OssimPlanet from its icon from the directory "Desktop-GIS" on the desktop
- Select File -> Open Session -> /home/user/ossim/ossim_data/session.session
- Navigate the scene.
- Go to menu -> Open kml -> /home/user/ossim/ossim_data/*.kml
- Go on the legend tree -> location -> open the trees -> bouble click on the kml location
- you should see the scene zoom to the location
- To test the command line simply run :
ossim-image-info /usr/local/share/ossim/ossim_data/band1.tif
Note: to turn off the daylight auto-shading, un-check Preferences -> Environment -> Enable Ephemeris
- test results from 16 March 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10 base
- Version: distribution version: eg: arramagong 3.0 rc4 + fixes
- Results: Pass with issues
- Imagelinker: These test steps don't give guidance on how to try some of the functionality
- Imagelinker: Tried opening a project, then opening the project a second time and the application crashed
ugvsigmobile
- Tests written for
- Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux 0.1.6, arramagong 3.0-rc4
- Test Description last updated
- 13 March 2010
- Steps
- Click menu icon "Applications / Geospatial Beta software / Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux".
- Verify a new window opens up (size: 800 x 600 pixels approx.). From now on, buttons on the left side will be called (from top): button 1, button 2, button 3, button 4, button 5 and button 6. Button 1 is a cycle button with four different states corresponding to four different tools, so that active tool is the visible one.
- Click button 5 and choose EPSG:25833 in the top combo box.
- Click button 3, choose "Rome (Italy) Aerial" in the bottom combo box and click on the button located to the right of the combo box (with a little triangle).
- Verify that an aerial image of Rome appears after a few seconds.
- Click button 3, click one of the [...] buttons.
- Verify that a simple file browser opens up.
- By clicking on the folder names (one click) and on the "Parent folder" button, go to the folder /usr/local/share/ugvsigmobile
- Verify that the file CapitolineHill_25833.shp is listed in the box to the right.
- Select that file (click on it once) and click the green "OK" button.
- Check the check box located immediately to the left of the file name (to make it visible on the map) and click on the button located to the right of the [...] button you clicked before (little triangle).
- Verify that the map moves to a bean-shaped little shapefile that contains the Capitoline Hill in the center of Rome.
- Click button 3 and uncheck the check box you checked before (to make the shapefile invisible).
- Click button 5 and choose EPSG:3857 in the top combo box.
- Click button 3, choose "OSM Mapnik" in the bottom combo box and click on the button located to the right of the combo box.
- Verify that the Mapnik tiles appear on the map.
- Open this URL (it's a simple WMS request) in a new web browser tab or window.
- Verify that you see a map including Africa, South America and Europe, possibly with some colorful icons on it.
- Click button 3 and check the check box tagged as "Waypts".
- Click button 5 and click the "Sync" button.
- Verify that after a few seconds you see a large dialog saying "Sync OK". Click the green (accept) button, which will take you to the map, where new red flags may have appeared.
- Click button 1 several times until a red circle is visible on it.
- Click somewhere on the map. A new dialog will show. Choose random values for the attributes and click the green (accept) button. Repeat this step two or three times.
- Click button 5 and push the "Sync" button.
- Verify that after a few seconds you see a large dialog saying "Sync OK".
- Click the green (accept) button.
- Go back to the web browser tab or window you opened before and click on "Refresh".
- Verify that the points you added appear now on the map.
- Click button 6 and click "Quit"
- Verify that the application diappears.
- Update the wiki with test results.
- Test results from 13 March 2010
- Run by: Juan Lucas Dominguez jldominguez
- System: Arramagong livedvd 3.0 rc4 ISO within Virtual Box on Windows Vista
- Version: Arramagong livedvd 3.0 rc4
- Result: Pass
osgearth
- Tests written for
- osgearth, LiveDVD 3.0
- Last updated
- 14 March 2010
- Steps
- Open a terminal
osgearth_simple /usr/share/osgearth/maps/nexrad.earth
- Result - test please
You should see a globe with radar data over some parts of North America.
click to navigate; right-click or scroll wheel to zoom in and out.
hit the 'escape' key to quit
gdal / ogr
- Tests written for
- GDAL, LiveDVD 3.0
- Last updated
- 14 March 2010
- Steps
- Open a terminal
ogrinfo PG:dbname=medford ogrinfo PG:dbname=medford -so -al
gdalinfo /usr/share/osgearth/data/terrain/mt_rainier_90m.tif
- Result
You should see a summary of the contents of the medford PostGIS database, and of a geoTIFF of Mt Rainier
MapGuide Open Source
- Tests written for
- MapGuide Open Source 2.2.0, LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- June 26, 2010
- Steps
- Start LiveDVD and log in as "user"
- Verify presence of "Start MapGuide", "Stop MapGuide", and "MapGuide Maestro" desktop icons
- Double click "Start MapGuide" desktop icon and enter "user" password if prompted
- Verify that "Starting MapGuide" and "Starting Apache" messages appear
- Open a browser window to http://localhost:8008/mapguide/phpviewersample/ajaxviewersample.php
- Verify that a map is displayed in the center of the screen with a layer legend to the left of the map and an application "Overview" pane to the right of the map.
- Zoom into street level detail and click the pointer icon. Select a parcel.
- Verify that a parcel is selected in blue.
- On the right hand side of the page, click "Tasks" then "Buffer". Set the distance to 20 meters and click "Done"
- Verify that a red buffer zone appears around the parcel.
- Close the browser and double click the "MapGuide Maestro" desktop icon. Login to "http://localhost:8008/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.fcgi" as user "Administrator" and password "admin".
- Verify that the tree view contains "Samples/Sheboygan".
- Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)
- test results from July 24, 2010
- Run by: Trevor Wekel
- System: VMware ESX 4.1, 16GB RAM
- Version: LiveDVD 4.0 Beta 3
- Results: Pass with issues. libexpat was not loading. Added LD_LIBRARY_PATH to MapGuide startup script.
- link to bug reports
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
Mapbender
- Tests written for
- Mapbender 2.6.1, OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- 5. July 2010
- Steps
- make sure that you have a working internet connection
- make sure that your Apache and PostgreSQL is running
- double click on the Mapbender icon on the desktop or browse to http://localhost/mapbender/
- Verify that a browser opens after a few seconds showing the Mapbender login-page
- login with user root / password root
- Verify that the list of the available applications appears
- choose application named "gui" with a click on the name
- verify that the application "gui" opens and that you see a Mapbender application with the demis-world WMS, a germany WMS and a mapbender-user WMS
- Update the wiki with test results (after these test steps)
- test results from 5.7.2010
- Run by: Astrid Emde
- System: VirtualBox, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 8.10
- Version: Mapbender 2.6.1, just ran ./install_postgis.sh and ./install_mapbender.sh
- Results: Pass, Pass with issues, Fail
- I ran ./install_postgis.sh and ./install_mapbender.sh - When I started Mapbender the ALIAS was not created. After restart the Mapbender could be used without problem, login succeded
- Result
- next test will be run with the osgeolive 4.0 rc
- test results from 23.7.2010
- Run by: Marc Manns
- System: VirtualBox, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 8.10
- Version: OSGeoLIve beta2 Mapbender 2.6.1
- Results: Pass with issues
- create user/group
- create application
- register new WMS
- customize tree
- add WMSFromFilteredList
- change language in [Mapbender.conf] to german
- suggestion: There is a password.txt at the desktop. I think, we should add our root/root authentication to it. -> done --astroide 09:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
- Result
- the Mapbender applications handling worked fine
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
Sahana
- Tests written for
- OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- -
- Steps
- follow the steps in the on-disc help page
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
Ushahidi
- Tests written for
- OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- -
- Steps
- follow the steps in the on-disc help page
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
Viking
- Tests written for
- OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- -
- Steps
- Start it up from the Navigation and Maps menu
- If you have a GPX file handy, File → Open
- Layers → New Map Layer
- pick OpenStreetMaps (Cycle), [ok]
- On the Layer Name list on the left side, right click on "Map" and Download Onscreen Maps
- It should start to download street maps of lower Manhattan
- Select Tools → Ruler from the menu
- Click on the Brooklyn Bridge, then on Batter Park to get a distance and heading
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
ZOO Project
- Tests written for
- .ZOO Project. 1.0.0, OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- -
- Steps
- make sure that your Apache and GeoServer are running
- click on "ZOO Project" icon from the Servers Desktop directory to make firefox loading the Spatialtools demo page
- select a feature from the displayed states then click on a spatialtools buton to get the RawDataOutput result of processing displayed on the map
zyGrib
- Tests written for
- OSGeo LiveDVD 4.0
- Test Description last updated
- -
- Steps
- follow the steps in the on-disc help page
- Add more test results below, most recent results at the top
main documentation
- Tests written for
- arramgong_3.0rc4 + fixes
- Test Description last updated
- 15 March 2010
- Steps
- Open Help by selecting he help icon (a yellow sign with a wombat)
- Verify that the firefox web browser opens at file:///usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/index.thml
- Verify that the browser opens with "Home", "Contents", "Contact and Support", "Tests", "Sponsors" tabs.
- Click on the above tabs.
- Verify the respective pages are opened.
- Open the "Contents" tab
- Verify that each project is mentioned.
- Verify that the project version numbers matches version numbers here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
- Verify that when clicking on each project title, a description page is opened.
- Install a link checker
sudo apt-get install linkchecker
- Run the linkchecker against the installed docs:
linkchecker /usr/local/share/livedvd-docs/index.html 2>&1 | tee /var/log/arramagong/linkchecker.log
- Verify there are not errors in the log file
- test results from 13 March 2010
- Run by: Cameron Shorter
- System: VMWare Player, 2Gig RAM, on ubuntu 9.10
- Version: arramagong 3.0 rc4 + fixes
- Results: Pass with issues
- When Firefox starts for the first time, it asks for confirmation for the language pack plugins
- Errors found in the link check
Windows Installers
- Tests written for
- arramgong 3.0rc5
- Test Description last updated
- 20 March 2010
- Steps
- From a windows computer, or Virtual Machine, insert the LiveDVD.
- Go to the WindowsInstallers directory on the LiveDVD
- Verify the installers are the same version number as the rest of the DVD, as listed at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
- For each WindowsInstaller, run the installer, using all defaults
- Verify the application installs without errors
- If sufficient time, Open up the application and run the test steps above for the application.
- test results from 20 March 2010
- Run by: Jody Garnett
- System: Windows XP, with a burned DVD and 1Gig RAM
- Version: arramagong 3.0 rc5
- Results: Pass with issues
As emailed here: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2010-March/001595.html
FWTools243
- ok
geonetwork-install-2.4.2-0
- ok (is that a real version number?)
geoserver-1.7.6-ng
- warning about needing a jdk; pointed at one on the system and it was fine
- note if you upgrade to 2.0.1 jre is fine
- correction http://downloads.sourceforge.net/geoserver/geoserver-2.0.1-ng.exe
- Note: has been upgraded for 3.0rc6 and Final
gpsbabel-1.3.6
- zip file works
- it would be nicer if the zipfile contained a folder (rather then just files so that users can unzip in one step rather then needing to make a folder first)
gpsVPxp_0.4.18
- zip file works
gvSIG-update-1_1_2-windows-i586
- failed
- asks to install missing components
- hitting yes tries downloading JavaJRE version 1.5.0...
- .. and after 2 hours it did not succeed (and would not cancel)
- system already had a jre6 installed (so above missing component should not of been needed)
- Note: Updated to gvSIG 1.9 stable for arramagong 3.0RC6 and Final.
Kosmo_Desktop_2.0-RC1_windows_jre
- zip file works fine
maptiler-1.0-beta2-setup
- ok
MgServerSetup-2.0.2.3011
- ok
ms4w_3.0-beta7
- zip file is okay
- but an installer is now available for download!
- correction http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/ms4w-2.3.1-setup.exe
OpenCPN_136_Setup
- ok
QGIS-1.4.0-1-No-GrassSetup
- ok
udig-1.1.1
- ok
- includes a jre+imageio+jai
- correction http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/udig-1.2-RC1.exe
vcredist_x86
- ok
WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r41454-1-Setup
- ok
Mac Installers
- Tests written for
- arramgong 3.0rc5
- Test Description last updated
- 20 March 2010
- Steps
- From a windows computer, or Virtual Machine, insert the LiveDVD.
- Go to the MacInstallers directory on the LiveDVD
- Verify the installers are the same version number as the rest of the DVD, as listed at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB
- For each MacInstaller, run the installer, using all defaults
- Verify the application installs without errors
- If sufficient time, Open up the application and run the test steps above for the application.