StrataVarious HyperMaps™  Patented Layered Map Atlas

Maps can be used for more than a "how-to-get-there" tool.  They can help us better picture our day-to-day world.  In government and business, seeing the layout of particular sets of facilities or conditions aids in planning and decision-making.  Geographic Information Systems (GIS) now compile data on land use, regulations, transportation, demographics, and the environment to be presented in digital maps.

Existing GIS has powerful and complex data-plotting capabilities that can generate coverages on a given topic for a given place.  HyperMapping makes these coverages, or layers, easier to access via its patented interactive keys, tabbed pop-up query boxes, and image library system.

The HyperMap software is a template into which GIS-generated layers, map graphics, and images of any place can be organized for quick and easy viewing.  StrataVarious HyperMaps gather place-related information from many sources.  Insights can be gained about a place by showing and hiding overlays of information using clickable keys and by pressing "hot" map symbols to pop up annotational data.  Studying a map becomes a flowing thought process to understand patterns and relationships and to reach well-informed decisions.  Researchers can then use HyperMaps to present their findings in a dynamic and powerful way.

"Picture Your World with HyperMaps"™

HyperMaps enable analysts and decision-makers, scientists and scholars to easily access, manipulate, annotate, and add to a map atlas.  These "non-techie" experts can themselves see and study a wide variety of relevant data on the landscape.  And in this manner, the public can explore more about places associated with current events, local planning, and their day-to-day world.

StrataVarious also provides HyperMaps for travel planning, local activity listings, Yellow Pages directories, and news backgrounders.

The term "map" is most commonly associated with a flat, simplified representation of a landscape from above.  A map can also be any visual portrayal of a geographic area or imaginary place including a cartographic, diagrammatic, photographic, perspective, or bird's-eye-view image or three-dimensional model.  As well, a map can be a diagrammatic representation of a complex object such as the human body.  A map can also graphically portray a topic for which a set of pictures or words are understood more clearly in a series of subsets and in relationship to each other such as an organizational chart or a molecular diagram.  HyperMapping's clickable keys and user-requested pop-ups make these maps truly interactive and browseable.

Learn more about The HyperMap Atlas and Boston Area demos using online GIS from:

	Google Maps™ API, launched 10/05;
	MSN Virtual Earth Maps™ API, launched 11/05;
	Yahoo Maps™ API, launched 11/05.

To view HyperMap demos and

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