Portable GIS 2.0: GIS on a USB drive, released

Free Geography Tools posted the latest update of the Portable GIS. The site confirmed the released of the free downloadable Portable GIS 2.0 by Jo Cook of Oxford Archaeology. "GIS on a USB Stick" is a suite of portable GIS programs that could be installed on a thumb drive and run from any computer.

Features:

* gvSIG (1.1.2)
* Quantum GIS (1.02)
* Grass (accessed through Quantum GIS)
* PostgreSQL (8.4.01)
* PostGIS (1.4.0)
* Xampplite: PHP, MySQL, Apache (1.6.2)
* Geoserver (1.7.6)
* FWTools: ogr, gdal, python, mapserver, openEV (2.4.2)

Plus a bunch of new apps for 2.0:

* Tilecache (2.10)
* Featureserver (1.12)
* PgAdmin III (1.10)
* OpenLayers (2.8)
* uDig (1.1.1)
* SqlSync (cross-platform database synchronization)
* Shp2Text (converts shapefiles into csv, with coordinate columns)
* Ogr2Gui (GUI for OGR toolkit)
* ShapeChecker (Checks and fixes corrupt shape files)
* GeoMetadataExtractor (extracts metadata from georeferenced images)
* libgeoGUI (extracts and embeds worldfiles and metadata to/from GeoTiffs)

Check it out. Download for free Portable GIS version 2!