Meanings
nounhypermap (plural hypermaps)
plural hypermaps
- 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
Origin
From hyper- + map, introduced by Laurini and Millert-Raffort (1990).
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