Since their inception in the 16th century, atlases have performed the dual role of informing and entertaining: bringing a sense of exploration and wonder to readers while teaching them about the world and illustrating its geographic connectivity. In our current era, digital multimodal storytelling and publishing innovations have created new possibilities for engaged, interactive, and multi-layered nonlinear publications. The Georgia Coast Atlas is designed to provide a page-turning experience similar to a traditional atlas, shifting readers between spaces using maps, images, and text. Our goal is to transform the concept of the conventional atlas into an open-access, interdisciplinary, and multimodal digital publishing platform. Our team believes that atlases still have a place in the digital age as a way for anyone—scholar, student, traveler, or local—to further their environmental and cultural knowledge about the world around them. 

The Georgia Coast Atlas contains a significant amount of data, but this site is not a data repository. There are several excellent online repositories (like Georgia Tech’s G-CAMP portal) that provide detailed datasets about the Georgia coast, and we encourage you to utilize them.