Chapter 2.  HyperAdmin Overview
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Chapter 2.  HyperAdmin Overview

In order to perform Multiscalar Territorial Analysis with 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 HyperAtlas dataset input file is called an hyp file (example: demography.hyp).

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 HyperAdmin and HyperAtlas is summarized in the Figure 2.1.

Figure 2.1.  HyperCarte Workflow

HyperCarte Workflow

HyperAdmin and 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 2.1, 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 HyperAdmin.

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

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