Geopublisher¶

Electronic Library Manager¶

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¶

screenshot of Geopublisher editing an atlas

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.
AtlasStyler 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¶

OGC Style Layer Descriptor (SLD)

Details¶

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¶

Quickstart documentation