:Author: Stefan Tzeggai
:Version: osgeo-live4.0
:License: Creative Commons

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Geopublisher
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Electronic Library Manager
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Geopublisher is an atlas authoring system which enables easy publication of geo-data, documents, images, videos, and statistics in form of digital multimedia atlases. These atlases are effectively a minimal, pre-configured, end-user GIS which offers selected functionality only where its meaningful.

Geopublisher provides tools for quality assurance and multilingual meta-data management. No in-depth knowledge of HTML, SLD or XML is required to create an atlas. Atlases can be directly published on CD, DVD, memory stick, external hard-drive or the Internet. The software is platform-independent.

Geopublisher's unique features make it especially applicable in the fields of international research, participatory GIS, capacity building, and development cooperation.

Core Features
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* Atlases created with Geopublisher are a simplified end-user GIS with selected functionality available only where its meaningful.
* Hybrid online and offline atlases make geo-data accessible in areas beyond the digital divide.
* Multilingual management of meta-data avoids redundancies and allows for the quick release of updated atlases.
* Integrated WYSIWYG editors for SLD and HTML allow geopublishing without knowledge of SLD, XML or HTML.
* All software is Free and Open-Source Software compliant with OGC standards.
* Geopublisher + QuantumGIS + OpenOffice provide a free Open-Source Geopublishing desktop.
* :doc:`AtlasStyler <atlasstyler_overview>` SLD editor is integrated into Geopublisher.
* Runs on Mac OS, Windows and Linux.
* Styling based on OGC SLD standard.
* Offline atlases run directly from any media - Java does not have to be installed.
* Supports tiled image pyramids for big raster data.
* Fully translated into German, English, Italian and French.


Implemented Standards
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* OGC Style Layer Descriptor (SLD)

Details
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**Website:** http://en.geopublishing.org/Geopublisher

**Software Version:** 1.5

**Licence:** GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0; exported atlases are GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 3.0

**Supported Platforms:** GNU/Linux, MS Windows, Mac OS - Any OS where Java 1.6 can be installed

**API Interfaces:** Java, Swing, Geotools

**Support:** http://www.wikisquare.de


Quickstart
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* `Quickstart documentation <../quickstart/geopublisher_quickstart.html>`_