Opened 13 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#783 closed task (fixed)

no obvious way to figure out where the data is on the DVD

Reported by: rouault Owned by: hamish
Priority: minor Milestone: OSGeoLive6.5
Component: OSGeoLive Keywords: doc, 6.5
Cc: live-demo@…

Description

docs/en/overview/overview.html has a data section that links to the page of the 3 datasets, but it doesn't clearly indicate that those data are located in /home/user/data/

It could perhaps make also sense to have a shortcut in the Geospatial menu that launchs a file explorer directly on that folder ?

Change history (5)

in reply to:  description comment:1 by hamish, 13 years ago

Keywords: doc added
Priority: normalminor

Replying to rouault:

docs/en/overview/overview.html has a data section that links to the page of the 3 datasets, but it doesn't clearly indicate that those data are located in /home/user/data/

I'll put something to the welcome message. (for next time, unless Alex wants to patch by hand)

It could perhaps make also sense to have a shortcut in the Geospatial menu that launchs a file explorer directly on that folder ?

I'm not going to touch the menus any more for this release, but it is a good idea we'll get that in next time. (~/data/ needs a wee bit of cleanup too, still waiting to hear if ossim needs stuff there or if it can use the sample data sets)

Hamish

comment:2 by hamish, 13 years ago

Cc: live-demo@… added
Owner: changed from live-demo@… to hamish
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by hamish, 12 years ago

Keywords: 6.0 added

to make things easier to find I put symlinks to all of the geotiff and shapefile caches I could find on the disk into the ~/data/ dir. (many under vector/ or raster/)

It would be nice to revisit the idea of adding a menu item to a file browser in the next release.

Hamish

comment:4 by camerons, 12 years ago

Keywords: 6.5 added; 6.0 removed
Milestone: OSGeoLive6.5

comment:5 by kalxas, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

There is a Data link now

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