Geopublisher and AtlasStyler

About AtlasStyler

AtlasStyler is a user-friendly application to style geodata. The resulting styles can be saved to XML files that follow the OGC SLD/SE standard 1.0.

The created SLD files are compatibel with GeoServer, uDig, Geotools-based applications and all other programs that use the OGC SLD standard.

The application provides a multiplicity of intuitive dialogs that allow to create style productively - without dealing with any XML. You can apply abstract classifications like unique values, colored quantiles or equal distance; additionally you have integrated access to an online symbol-database. You can create and save symbols in the SymbolEditor and reuse you symbols in classifications or other projects.

About Geopublisher

Geopublisher is an atlas authoring system which allows easy publication of geo-data, documents, images, videos, and statistics in form of digital multimedia atlases. These atlases can be understood as minimal, pre-configured end-user GIS which offer 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 and Open-Source.

Features as a glance:

Geopublishing.org software has some unique features which make it especially applicable in the fields of international research, participatory GIS, capacity building, and development cooperation. These features include:

Atlases created with Geopublisher are simplified end-user GIS with selected functionality available only where it's 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.

Detailed feature list available online.

Technical details:

Platform independence: developed in Java, Geopublisher and its atlases run 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.

Support:

All software is OpenSouce and can be downloaded from the project web page. For special challenges, the Bonn-based company wikisquare is providing commercial support, including trainings, special feature development, online atlas hosting and complete atlas creation: www.wikisquare.de

Geopublisher and AtlasStyler Documentation

The multilingual (de, en, fr) webpage at http://(en|de|fr).geopublishing.org provides a good resource for documentation about Geopublisher and AtlasStyler. Also consider to join the mailinglist for Geopublisher and AtlasStyler users: atlas-framework-users. However, the following PDF documentation is now locally installed on your computer in folder /usr/share/doc/geopublishing:

Manuals

AtlasViewer (How to use atlases created with Geopublisher)

AtlasStyler (Styling layers with SLD)

AtlasStyler manual, German, Created for version 1.2

Geopublisher (Create and export atlases)

Tutorials

More tutorials are posted as blog entries at www.geopublishing.org.

Geopublisher (Create and export atlases)

AtlasStyler (Styling layers with SLD)