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hypermap en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + map, introduced by Laurini and Millert-Raffort (1990).

Meanings

  1. A georeferenced multimedia map.
    • Since the hypermap does not impose integrity constraints or planar enforcement of geometry in its design, there is a flexibility in the implementation that is attractive when the overall size of the multimedia database is not too great. 2000, Jonathan Raper, Multidimensional Geographic Information Science, page 190:

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