Create an atlas with Geopublisher in 5 minutes - Video tutorial

Geopublisher is a software to create and publish multimedia atlases and has been developed to overcome the technical obstacles in publishing geo-data. The targeted users are scientists and institutions that want to communicate their results to the general public. The exported atlases are user-friendly and can therefore easily be used by people who are not familiar with GIS.

Video

By watching the following video tutorial you will learn the steps you need to create and export a basic atlas using the free Geopublisher software. The video takes about 5 minutes and its purpose is to show the basic steps needed to create a first atlas with Geopublisher.

The video was made using Wink, an easy to use Open-Source tutorial and presentation creation software.

Lean back and watch:

Reproduce the atlas created in the video tutorial

To reproduce what we did in the video, you need to get the Geopublisher software from the Geopublisher homepage.

The geo-data used in the video has been downloaded from the Internet. There exists a growing number of web-pages where where you can download free geo-data. For this tutorial we downloaded two data-sets from the GeoCommons web-page:

1. Shapefile of the countries of the world and
2. Shapefile containing information about the world drug use.

With Quantum GIS - a nice Open Source GIS software - we joined the two Shapefiles and saved the new layer as world_drug_use.shp. You can download the joined Shapefile here. Also used in this video is the PDF "Drug Use Around the World" which you may download here.

If you have any questions or problems, please do not hesitate to ask on the users mailinglist!

P.S.: For offline usage you can download the video as a ZIP file.