Chapter 10. ESPON HyperAdmin Overview
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Chapter 10. ESPON HyperAdmin Overview

In order to perform Multiscalar Territorial Analysis with ESPON HyperAtlas, the datasets provided by geographers are serialized in a convenient format into a binary file named with the .hyp extension. As a convention, a ESPON HyperAtlas dataset input file is called an hyp file (example: demography.hyp).

ESPON HyperAdmin is the tool to generate hyp files from your a set of input well-formed files. The steps to generate an hyp file and the workflow between ESPON HyperAdmin and ESPON HyperAtlas is summarized in the Figure 10.1.

Figure 10.1. ESPON HyperCarte Workflow

ESPON HyperCarte Workflow

ESPON HyperAdmin and ESPON HyperAtlas data flow.

To sum up, the main expected input files are:

  • the geometry of the dataset, in MapInfo MIF/MID formats:

    • the MIF file

    • the MID file

  • the structure of the dataset, as an xls (Excel/OpenOffice) file

  • the stocks of the dataset, as an xls (Excel/OpenOffice) file


As shown on Figure 10.1, creating a dataset hyp file consists in:

  1. preparing your dataset geometry as a MIF/MID files pair (MapInfo format);

  2. preparing your dataset structure as a speadsheet structure.xls file;

  3. optionally, preparing a distance-time matrix as an xlsfile for custom contiguities;

  4. preparing your dataset stocks as a spreadsheet (Excel/OpenOffice) data.xls file;

  5. generating the dataset hyp file with ESPON HyperAdmin.

Following chapters describe each above step for integrating your data into an hyp file.

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