HyperCarte Research Group aims at providing projects and applications for interactive cartography. The projects focus on the development of an easily understood methodology that allows the analysis and visualization of spatial phenomena, taking into account its multiple possible representations.

Statistical observations of the territory are complex, and one representation, directly linked to a precise objective, is the result of a combination of different choices which are relative on one hand to the territories and their geographical scales, to the the statistical indicators on the other hand. This is of interest for researchers as well as for development policy decision-makers.

Thus, the principal innovative aspect of the HyperCarte project lies on this perspective based on the popularization of methods coming from spatial analysis such as the fitting of territorial scales, gradients, discontinuities…. This supposes an effort of multidisciplinary cooperation between geographers and computer scientists in order to create new maps in real time according to the different choices. An important effort has concerned ergonomics and time of calculus.

Main partners of the HyperCarte research group are:

	RIATE [UMS 2414] http://www.ums-riate.com
	CNRS UMR 8504 Géographie-Cités [UMR 8504] http://www.parisgeo.cnrs.fr
	LIG-MESCAL [UMR 5217] http://mescal.imag.fr/
	LIG-STeamer [UMR 5217] http://steamer.imag.fr/

For more information, please visit HyperCarte Research Group Web site on http://hypercarte.imag.fr.