Documentation

• Getting Started Guides
   
• StatPlanet Cloud: 
  • Quick Start Guide
• StatPlanet & StatTrends:
  • Quick Start Guide

Additional documentation

• StatPlanet Desktop User Guide:
  • View online | PDF | Word doc
  • Short User Guide by the World Bank
  • Quick Start - Word doc
• Examples and training materials:
  • Training materials and PowerPoints
  • Map-related resources
  • Example template of a data file (for importing data)
  • Example of how to set up multiple data files
• Educational use:
  • Resources for schools and other educational institutions
• Multilingual:
  •  French, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Videos

• How to create an Interactive Map in 5 minutes - Getting started with StatPlanet
• StatPlanet World Bank - Explore world stats from the World Bank's Open Data Initiative
• StatPlanet video channel
   

Maps

• Create your own Flash maps
• Download free shapefile maps
• Merge multiple map layers into a single shapefile using Quantum GIS
• Import cities or other locations using latitude/longitude coordinates
• Useful free shapefile map tools
• Sources of global data for your maps
• Tips for creating your maps
   

Multilingual Resources

• French:
  • French User Guide - shortened version only (please use the English version for additional guidance)
  • Vidéo: Présentation de StatPlanet
  • StatPlanet World Bank in French
• Indonesian:
  • Indonesian (Bahasa) User Guide - courtesy of Yudho Indardjo
• Polish:
  • ​Wykresy z sieci
• Portuguese:
  • Mapas Interativos em Flash
• Russian:
  • Russian User Guide - courtesy of Andrey Loschilov
• Spanish: ​
  • Spanish Quick Start Guide - courtesy of Fabio Castro and Jorge Rubiano from the Geography Department of Universidad del Valle - Cali - Colombia.
    A Word Doc version is also available.
  • StatPlanet World Bank in Spanish
• Vietnamese:
  • Vietnamese User Guide
  • Vietnamese training materials (45 mb, including PowerPoints and Vietnamese version of StatPlanet)
  • Vietnamese map files