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INSTALLATION GUIDELINES

1. Plone PrimaGIS Installation Guidelines for Linux using the PrimaGIS Buildout method This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing the webGIS software called PrimaGIS on Linux, using the the 'PrimaGIS Buildout' method by Kai Lautaportti¹. The aim is to build on existing guidelines by Lautaportti, by providing screenshots and more details for installing PrimaGIS on various Linux operating systems, so as to help users who are not that familiar with PrimaGIS or Plone to get started with the software.

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2. Installing Plone PrimaGIS on Linux using the SEA-RLC PrimaGIS Toolkit (based on PrimaGIS Buildout method)
This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing Plone PrimaGIS on Linux, using the SEA-RLC PrimaGIS Toolkit. The Toolkit is based on the 'PrimaGIS Buildout' method by Kai Lautaportti¹, and it aims to simplify the installation of PrimaGIS by providing users with all required software packages bundled together as a single tar.gz archive.

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Download archive (75 MB): SEA-RLC PrimaGIS Toolkit



3. Guidelines for installing Plone PrimaGIS on Windows XP
This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing Plone PrimaGIS on Windows XP. The installation example uses the software bundled together below (PrimaGIS_install_windows_v1.zip).

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Download bundled software (41 MB): PrimaGIS_install_windows_v1.zip

USER GUIDELINES

4. Guidelines for adding a WMS layer to Plone PrimaGIS
This document provides simple guidelines with screenshots for adding a Web Map Service (WMS) layer to Plone PrimaGIS. The guidelines use the SEA-RLC PrimaGIS Toolkit (see above) which is based on the Builout method by Lautaportti¹ for installing PrimaGIS on Linux.

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5. Guidelines for adding a shapefile to PrimaGIS
The aim of this document is to provide simple guidelines for adding a shapefile layer to Plone PrimaGIS.

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6. Guidelines for adding views and linking content to the PrimaGIS map display.

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[Documentation on PrimaGIS website: http://www.primagis.fi/documentation ]


¹Lautaportti K (2007) PrimaGIS Buildout. URL: http://trac.gispython.org/projects/PrimaGIS/wiki/PrimaGISBuildout [last accessed 16 Jan 2007]