IST project's website goes live
Hypergeo, a project funded under the IST programme that provides technical tools enabling value-added information services related to geographic information, has announced its website is now live. The project handles both information (hyper or hypertext) and geography (geo), as reflected in the name, and has both technical and business objectives. On the technical side, the project aims to develop and integrate innovative software components in a single system enabling users to formulate advanced requests, access information in different modes, and to display the information in a multi-layered form. The business objective is to prepare the way for innovative service offerings primarily for mobile users needing access to geographic information for their activity. Detailed objectives include: - study and develop advanced information technology components to improve information systems efficiency and user friendliness; - study new methods to make efficient use of remote geographic information, in particular for mobile users; - demonstrate the performances through a tourism information system; - show possible extension to other information systems applications and define possible models for operation.