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Posted
6 months
ago
by
admin
Today I sadly have to announce, that Geopublisher and AtlasStyler development ceased. Geopublisher started as part of my diploma thesis in 2008. In 2009 AtlasStyler SLD editor emerged as a stand-alone application. The projects have always been
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Open-Source. The software has worldwide users and it always gave me great pleasure to receive friendly mails from around the globe. Despite many enthusiastic users, the project didn't manage to win Java developers that could help me with the core development. Neither did commercial support contracts suffice to feed me and my family.
Today in 2012 I am fully involved in a new real-estate statistics and mapping project (http://www.empirica-systeme.de). Whenever there is any spare time I want to spend it with my family. I hope that in a few years I will have more time to do fun things for free again - that could be a newly rewritten Geopublisher 2.0 or something else usefull, exciting and surely Open-Source.
I want to say THANK YOU for all the support and motivation, starting with Dr. Hans-Peter Thamm, the IMPETUS project, Andrea Aime @ Geotools, Michael Janik, Edwin Amado and many many more. For me this has been a great experience and I hope the software will continue to be useful to many people for many more years.
Sincerely yours,
Stefan Tzeggai
PS: I will keep the JavaWebStart and Atlas-Online-Publication services online for at least one year. [Less]
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Posted
12 months
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
We are proud to announce the release of Geopublisher atlas creator and AtlasStyler SLD editor version 1.9. Too be true - we didn't have too much resources in the last months, because the main developer focused on another another project. But still
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some nice features have been added and a lot of bugs are fixed. News at a glance:
Ability to use dynamic charts as mapping symbols (This feature has been sponsored by the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen)
Better support for PostGIS data sources (AtlasStyler only)
30+ bugfixes for more stability
Compatibiliy with Java 7 and OpenJDK
Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.9 will be part of the upcomming OSGeo-Live DVD 6
Upgraded to Geotools 2.7.4 bugfix release
Geopublisher now has a YouTube channel with tutorial videos.
Your feedback is very important to us, and you can also learn from other users questions and answers. Use this link to join the multi-language mailinglist for Geopublisher und AtlasStyler users.
We are looking for translators, that would help to update the existing translations for the extended features.
To start Geopublisher 2.0 now click the green button here.
To start AtlasStyler 2.0 now click the green button here.
To download the software as .deb or ZIP use this page.
Happy mapping, yours Stefan Tzeggai [Less]
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Posted
about 1 year
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
In version 1.9 of Geopublisher and AtlasStyler, we added a feature to define dynamic chart symbols for styling maps. Piecharts, barcharts (horizontal/vertical stacked/grouped), and linecharts are supported. This new feature is build
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ontop of the GeoServer chart extension - a little secret jewel hidden in Geotools since 2009. Creating SLDs with dynamic chart-symbols is not part of the OGC SLD or SE standards, so the styles will only work in Geopublisher atlases and WMS powered by Geoserver.
What it's all about!?
Imagine you have a table with numeric attributes (e.g. from a Shapefile or a PostGIS datastore). To style it with a bar-chart in each polygon follow these steps (click on the image to see it in full size):
When using bar-charts, the maximum bar size always equals the value 100. If your data is distributed with a maximum of 1000, you should enter that value in the "maximum value" field. The SLD will then scale all your data to fit the bars.
Using this feature with Geoserver:
SLDs created for dynamic charts will not run on Geoserver out of the box. You will have to drop the following JAR-files into the WEB-INF/lib directory and restart Geoserver: JARs for GS v2.0.x, JARs for Geoserver 2.1.x.
Using this feature with Geopublisher:
When you use chart in Geopublisher atlases, there is nothing you have to do. This feature is part of Geopublisher and AtlasStyler version 1.9+. [Less]
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Posted
over 1 year
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
During the last months, we had some very strong support from Mr. Edwin Alberto Amado Baron from Colombia. Due to his uncomparable effort, Geopublisher is widely available in Spanish (español) / Castilian (castellano) now. In detail we are
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proud to announce, that
the Geopublisher software has been fully translated,
three tutorial videos have been created,
a 120 pages manual has been written.
Since Edwin is reading the mailing-list, you may now also ask your questions in Spanish. If you need professional support for mapping and creating digital atlases in America, don't hesitate to contact the local Geopublishing expert on site: Mr. Edwin Alberto Amado Baron.
Video tutorials
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Posted
almost 2 years
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
On May 20th 2011 we are proud to announce that Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.7 have been released. Geopublisher is a tool for geographers to create and publish maps without any knowledge of HTML, SLD, webservers etc. and AtlasStyler is a
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graphical interface to create OGC SLD/SE documents without the need of hacking any XML.
GP and AtlasStyler applications are translated into five languages: English, German, French, Turkish, Italian and Russian. In this release not all translations are updated. Translaters are asked to translate any new strings to we can make a full translated 1.7.1 release soon.
It has been half a year since version 1.6 has been released and we are very sorry for the delay - usually we want to make four releases a year. The following points mark some of the most important new features in this new version.
Geopublisher:
Automatic on-line publishing on geopublishing.org:
When exporting an atlas you may choose to publish your atlas on-line at http://atlas.geopublishing.org automatically without any technical setup. You may also choose to protect your atlas with a password. This new hosting feature is a free service for everybody without any guarante. For users wanting commercial support please contact us.
New HTML editor:
Thanks to the Glowa Jordan River project we have been able to include a new HTML editor into the Geopublisher application. The new editor provides spelling correction for more than 20 languages and has many new features like importing Microsoft Word layout.
Rewrite of the "Personalize logos and icons" dialog. The new dialog can be found at Atlas -> Personalize Images. The user may now also define where on the map the maplogo should appear:
Support for languages, that are not official ISO languages. This extension was sponsored by the www.cuvewaters.net project which does research in Central-Northern Namibia.
>90% Turkish translation thanks to Alişan Balkoca, PROGIS Yazılım
Filter by search-word simplifies managing many entries in your data-pool or map-pool:
AtlasStyler 1.7 SLD/SE Editor:
AtlasStyler is an integrated part of Geopublisher which can be used as a stand-alone application. Most of these new features are also part of Geopublisher 1.7:
New concept of "RulesLists"
We introduced a new concept called RulesLists to allow the creation and management of very complex styles without losing the overview.
A "RulesList" is a collection of SLD Rules that belong together semantically. For example a quantile classification is presented in SymbologyEncoding as multiple <sld:Rules>. For the AtlasStyler user these are presented as one RulesList. You may define multiple RulesLists in one style and define CQL filters or Min-/Max-Scales for each of them. Btw: You can copy any RulesList directly to the clipboard as a set of <sld:Rule> tags.
Scale-dependency
Every RulesList in AtlasStyler can now be limited to a specific scale range. To change the symbology while zooming into the map just define two RulesLists with different Min-/Max-Scales.
This screenshot shows the new RulesList menu structure in AtlasStyler. Note that the GPS points are not labeled since the preview is zoomed out of the Max-Scale range for the labels. This is indicated by marking the "max-scale" column red. Also note that you can avoid entering any Min-/Max-Scale numbers manually by using the right-mouse context menu:
Support for styling raster:
Support to style one-band raster files (e.g. GeoTiff or ArcASCII). Two types of RuleLists are supported: "colors for distinct raster values" and "define value ranges to be painted in different colors". Both dialogs allow the definition of NODATA values which are mapped to transparency. Of course the raster styler also has support for scale-dependency and comes with all of ColorBrewers palettes included.
A small new feature is to convert raster color palettes extracted by gdal to SLD: See this earlier blog for a description.
Improved WFS compatibility:
We had a hackfest with Andreas Schmitz and Markus Schneider of the deegree 3 development team to test and improve compatibility. We are happy that it now works to create SLDs with AtlasStyler using a deegree 3 WFS as a feature source:
Under the hood:
New icons for the webpage and JavaWebStart making it clearer whether you are using a stable or testing release.
geopublishing.org moved to a faster server
As always we are very happy to hear from you. If you have any questions, bug-reports or ideas contact us via the mailinglist. [Less]
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Posted
about 2 years
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
Currently, many different raster file formats exist. Some of them can store information about how to present the values stored in file. The GeoTiff format for example can include information on how to visualize the raster values. One
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widely-used way to describe such colorization-information are color-palettes. Color palettes typically contain up to 255 mappings of raster-values to RGB color values.
The great gdalinfo command line tool is able to show such color palette information from any supported raster file format. Let's see how gdalinfo could be used to show such information:
gdalinfo C:\some.tif
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Band 1 Block=256x256 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Palette
Overviews: 2397x2103, 1199x1052, 600x526
Color Table (RGB with 256 entries)
0: 216,240,224,255
1: 32,104,48,255
2: 208,240,224,255
3: 200,224,208,255
4: 192,224,200,255
5: 184,216,200,255
6: 208,232,216,255
7: 48,112,64,255
8: 168,208,176,255
9: 40,104,56,255
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If ColorInterp=Palette is reported by gdalinfo, a list of raster-value to color mappings follows.
Since version 1.7 AtlasStyler SLD/SE editor has support for raster files. When creating a style for a raster file, styling information is not automatically imported - unless it is already stored in a .sld file.
But recently there is a new function to import the output of gdalinfo for color palettes. Let's see how it works:
Last you would click the "Show XML code" or "Export all Layers as SLD". Since some time AtlasStyler is validating every SLD file automatically before saving: The resulting file can then be used with any WMS suporting SLD/SE, for example Geoserver.
Why would you want to do that?
Personally I have two typical usecases for this workflow:
1. Control transparency:
By converting the internal color-palette of a raster file to a SLD, it is easier to define transparency values. In the explame above, one would just delete a specific row, and the corresponding pixels are automatically transparent.
2. Save diskspace:
If you like to reduce the filesize of a RGB raster image, it can be very promosing to convert the three-band RGB image to a single-band image with a color palette - using gdal's rgb2pct tool. This conversion of course reduces the image quality (since the resulting image contains max. 255 colors), but also significantly reduces the disk usage. After this procedure I often need to control the transparency of the new file, resulting in reason 1. [Less]
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Posted
over 2 years
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
Under the patronage of IMPETUS - an Integrated Approach to the Efficient Management of Scarce Water Resources in West Africa - partners from the University of Abomey-Calavi (Benin) and the Secrétariat d'Etat Chargé de l'Eau et de
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l'Environnement / كتابة الدولة الـمكلفة بالـماء والبيئة (Morocco) attended several "train-the-trainers" sessions for Geopublisher in Bonn, Germany.
During the year 2010, they gave several courses about the publication of maps with Geopublisher in local institutions, like Ecole Doctorale Pluridisciplinaire, CIFRED and other graduate schools and faculties (FSA, FAST/CIPMA) of Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Benin) or the Université Ibn Zohr (Morocco). More courses are already planned for 2011.
The courses explained the general idea of multi-language publishing of maps on DVDs and the Internet, and every student created his own atlas with geo-data from the digital IMPETUS Atlas. Topics were:
Create a multi-language atlas
Add Shapefiles, Rasterimages and PDFs to you atlas
Define maps using the pool of data
Style maps (AtlasStyler) and describe layers and maps in each language
Export the atlas
The Geopublisher development team got a lot of valuable feedback and feature-requests, which were gradually realized in new versions of Geopublisher. Ask on the Geopublishing mailinglist or contact wikisquare.de if you are interested in tranings for your project or staff.
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Posted
over 2 years
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
On November 8th 2010 we are proud to announce that Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.6 have been released: The following points mark some of the most important new features in version 1.6: Geopublisher: Automatic correction
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of DBF attribute names which do not comply to the standards. This avoids a lot of problems when running the atlas on different/international computer systems.
It is now possible to define text labeling classes for each language. This allows e.g. to use one attribute for labeling in Arabic, and another attribute when the atlas is switched to English.
Exported atlases smaller
Atlases export with Geopublisher for distribution on disk (DVD, CD etc.) are now ~10Mb smaller.
A Geopublisher user may now switch the GUI/software language independently of the language the atlas data is shown in. So you can keep Geopublisher application in English while you look at the atlas in French.
Support for rasters has been improved. GeoTiff stays the preferred raster format. GP and its atlases now support prescaled overviews (pyramids) contained in the GeoTiff (see: gdaladdo) and generally uses less memory while displaying them.
A new tab 'Usage' has been added, to show you exactly where a layer is used.
Ability to automatically create a ZIP file of an exported DISK atlases.
Raster SLD transparency: The raster SLD editor contained in Geopublisher now allows to define the opacity of a color map entry. This makes it easier to define transparent colors for one-band rasters.
Geopublisher & AtlasStyler are now translated into: German, French, Italian, Russian (thanks to UralGeoInform) and English. AtlasStyler SLD editor is also available in Turkish.
The datapool and mappool can now be filtered by keywords, making the handling of numerous layers easier:
Geopublisher now has a Command Line Interface (CLI) and can export atlases from the command-line:
usage: geopublisher
-a,--atlas <srcDir> Folder to load the atlas from (atlas.gpa). The
path may not contain spaces!
-d,--disk Create DISK version of atlas when exporting.
-e,--export <dstDir> exports an atlas to a given directory, combine
this option with -f / -d and/or -j. The path may
not contain spaces!
-f,--force Overwrite any existing files during export.
-h,--help print this message.
-j,--jws Create JavaWebStart version of atlas when
exporting.
-l,--license Print license information.
-s,--saveandexit Save the atlas after loading and exit. This will
update atlas.xml to the lastest format.
-t,--keeptemp Do not clean temp files, needed if exporting in
parallel
-u,--jwsurl <jnlpUrl> Set the JNLP export URL specifically, overriding
the URL stored in the atlas.xml. Must end with a
/.
-v,--verbose Print verbose information while running.
-z,--zipdisk Zip the DISK folder after export.
AtlasStyler:
The AtlasStyler stand-alone application now has support for WFS! (Mainly tested with Geoserver 2.0.2, and bit with deegree 3).
Redesigned the GUI so that dialogs are more compact:
The AtlasStyler stand-alone application now has a nicer GUI with an Import Wizard for Shapefiles, PostGIS and WFS. You can maintain a list of PostGIS and WFS servers, so that you don't have to reenter information.
When saving .sld files, they are automatically validated against SLD XSD Schema. The user is informed if AS created an unvalidatable SLD file (should not happen).
Under the hood:
Nicer command line output and logging, tested in headless environment.
Added daily testing versions in repository: geopublisher-testing, atlasstyler-testing and geopublishing-doc-testing are now available in the Debian/Ubuntu repository. They are created continuously by the build system.
A "Mail" button has been added to the error dialog. Feel free to press the button and send the exception message with some comments about what you were doing to us.
Automatic cleanup of orphaned directories inside the atlas directory.
All demo atlases are now automatically exported and re-published with the latest stable and the testing versions whenever the SVN changes: atlas.geopublishing.org
If you have any questions/problems/comments please ask them on the mailinglist. Bugs and feature-requests can be reported at the Wald project hosting site. [Less]
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Posted
almost 3 years
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
Hello geopublihing.org readers! In this blog we want to update you on two things: The OSGeo Live DVD and the general roadmap of Geopublisher and AtlasStyler for the next months. OSGeo Live DVD The OSGeo Live project creates
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ready-to-use DVDs with preconfigured, runnable and documented FOSSGIS (free and open source GIS software) applications. The next release will be version 4.0 and and it will be distributed at the FOSS4G conference in Barcelona in a few days.
Wikisquare (the company sponsoring geopublishing.org) has participated in the OSGeo Live project this year to get Geopublisher and AtlasStyler onto the DVD. During that involvement I learned that the project is a lot of work, as dozends of applications have to be made runnable on a live system, documented and tested. I want to thank Cameron Shorter, Hamish, Alex Mandel and all involved for their efforts in creating a quality product that has the power to convince FOSSGIS-newbees of all the great open-source alternatives: Thanks a lot and keep up your great work!
Sadly, I have to announce here, that in the OSGeo Live DVD 4.0 - which will be distributed at FOSS4G - Geopublisher and AtlasStyler suffer a bug and are hardly usable in that release. The bug is fully my fault and I am very sorry it got in there in the last minute. The geopublishing.org web-page will feature a link to fixed version 4.0.1 in a few days. The OSGeo Live DVD 4.0.1 (and any later version) can then also be used for Geopublisher or AtlasStyler trainings, as it contains not only the applications, but also tutorials and demo data.
Until this fixed version 4.0.1 is released: To use AtlasStyler and Geopublisher from the OSGeo Live DVD as handed out at the FOSS4G, you have to do the following steps to fix the bug:
Boot the DVD as usual.
Open a terminal by clicking on the little black icon in the top panel.
Enter the following command:
sudo chown -R user:user .AtlasStyler .Geopublisher
Press [Return] and enter user as password.
Done. Close the terminal window and start AS oder GP with the desktop icon.
Roadmap
Geopublisher and AtlasStyler started in 2007 out of a diploma-thesis by an open-source enthusiast. In 2008 the open-source GIS company wikisquare.de was founded, which funded further development and offered commercial support for Geopublisher and the AtlasStyler SLD editor since then.
So far 2010 has been a very prospering year for wikisquare, but sadly the projects where usually not directly Geopublisher or AtlasStyler related. Hence only limited resources were available for development and were mainly spend on bugfixing instead of exciting new features.
For the future of AtlasStyler and Geopublisher we are more eagerly looking for organizations to invest into these projects. If you need a powerful SLD editor embedded into your software (AtlasStyler) or you can use an easy-to-use end-user desktop GUI to create maps and publish them (Geopublisher) please contact us! We are happy to port parts of it to the web or adapt it to you needs.
For the rest of 2010, the roadmap is very modest: There will be a relase of version 1.6 in November, but don't expect amazing new features. In spring 2011 we are determined to completely rewrite the existing Export-to-Web feature in Geopublisher. Geopublisher 2.0 will be able to export any GP atlas project to an end-user WebGIS consisting of industry-standard open-source components like: PostGIS, Geoserver and Openlayers. Any existing atlas projects will automatically profit from this enhancement, as it will be 100% backward compatible.
Get more involved, you!
I want to finish this blog entry with a general appeal to Open-Source software users:
Every month or so I meet a GIS user in person that has someday before evaluated Geopublisher / AtlasStyler and tells me that something didn't work as expected or a feature was missing. When I hear that, I usually become a bit angry inside - not because the software has a bug - but because it has never been reported. I then imagine all the other users that might have experienced the same bug - a bug that could have been fixed months ago, if someone would have reported it! So in case you and me meet in person on day, don't you dare to tell me about a bug you have been too lazy to report! ;-)
Developing good and stable Open-Source software is a community efford! The developers invest time = money to write code, and the users have to invest time = money in providing feedback and testing. So, if you don't want to be an Open-Source Lurker, please always take the time to give feedback and report bugs when you see them. The final product, all the other users, and - most important - your karma will profit from it!
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Posted
almost 3 years
ago
by
Stefan A. Tzeggai
We are proud to announce that today (June 8th 2010) Geopublisher and AtlasStyler 1.5 have been relased. The new versions come with a lot of changes "under the hood" which are not visible to the end user. Anyways - from a developers
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perspective - these changes were crucial to speedup further development and we are happy that we can purely focus on new features in next version 1.6 now.
The following points mark some of the most important new features in version 1.5:
Geopublisher:
Geopublisher.exe
For Windows users the ZIP download of Geopublisher now contains a Geopublisher.exe file. The .exe will offer to install Java if it can't be found on the computer.
Direct import of zipped ESRI Shapefiles:
Users can import zipped Shapefiles directly, without the need to unzip the Shapefile first.
Import of GeoCommons metadata:
When importing Shapefiles which have been downloaded from GeoCommons, Geopublisher will automatically parse title and attribute descriptions stored in the readme file.
Map scale unit selectable:
When composing maps, one can choose to show the map scale in feet & miles (US) or meters & kilometers (METRIC).
Cleaner offline exports:
Atlases exported for offline distribution (e.g. on a USB Stick or DVD) have a cleaner root directory. It now only contains atlas.exe (for Windows), start.sh (for MacOS and Linux), icon.gif and autorun.inf. All other files were moved to a subfolder atlasdata.
Google EPSG:900913 is now supported
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AtlasStyler:
Basic PostGIS support:
Users now can create SLD/SE files for spatial data tables stored in a PostgreSQL+PostGIS database directly. Users do not have to create Shapefiles of their data first.
AtlasStyler.exe
For Windows users the ZIP download of AtlasStyler now contains an AtlasStyler.exe file. The .exe will offer to install Java if it can't be found on the computer.
Define labelling classes:
AtlasStylers labelling tab can import the symbolization classification as labelling classes. This allows you to have multiple label styles for one layer e.g. useful to label missing data in a different color.
Google EPSG:900913 is now supported
Under the hood:
Maven, Hudson and Artifactory:
The biggest change in version 1.5 is the switch to the maven build system.
Multiple smaller JARs:
The Geopublishing sources have been seperated into five JAR-files: ascore, asswinggui, gpcore, gpswinggui, gpnatives. This allows for example to integrate the AtlasStyler classification logic in a Servlet without pulling any Swing related dependencies. The JAR-files are available from the wikisquare maven repository.
Ready for OpenJDK:
Geopublisher and AtlasStyler do not explicitly require Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE) any more. A recent OpenJDK JRE as shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 has so far passed all tests.
Debian repository:
Geopublishing software is now available via the Geopublishing repository. For Ubuntu/Debian this is the recommended installation method. The repository features the stable releases only.
New version numbers:
The version numbers are now related to the maven build process. Any version ending with "-SNAPSHOT" (e.g. "1.6-SNAPSHOT") is a development release for testing only. Any version number without "-SNAPSHOT" is a stable release.
New surname: Krüger -> Tzeggai
The project's head developer Stefan married and changed his last name from Krüger to Tzeggai. Hence Geopublisher and AtlasStyler are now (c) Stefan A. Tzeggai.
Geopublishing Twitter account:
If you want to follow (and comment on) latest thoughts and developments of the AtlasStyler and Geopublisher developers, follow us on twitter...
IRC Channel:
If you want to chat about a question or problem, you may want to look in the #geopublishing IRC channel on freenode.org
Software translations:
A Turkish translation of AtlasStyler is on the way, as well as an Italien translation of Geopublisher. Localization of the Software has been simplified and we are hoping for many new languages during the next months.
If you have any questions/problems/comments please ask them on the mailinglist. Bugs and feature-requests can be reported at the Wald project hosting site.
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