Download HyperAdmin User's Manual

Draft
Draft
Chapter 4. Structure/Contiguity input
The Section 4.1 presents the expectations of the HyperAdmin about the structure input file, e.g. the
information about the territorial units hierarchy and their relationships.
The Section 4.2 presents the optional steps that consists in creating a distance-time contiguity matrix
input data for custom neighbourhood definitions (example: distance time, 2 hours by car, etc.).
4.1. Structure input
In the the input structure.xls Excel file, ten sheets must mandatory be provided in a unique
.xls file.
Optionnally, complex contiguities must be defined as a set of seven sheets in an unique other xls file.
Thus the input data may be composed of:
• some_structure.xls: to describe the structure;
• some_contiguity.xls: to optionally describe the contiguities (see Section 4.2).
Table 4.1 provides the list of these sheets names and a short description for each of them, as they are
expected in the structure input definition. The expected columns and an example for each of them
is described below this table.
The names of sheets is case-unsensitive. For example, the mandatory UnitArea.txt file
can be named unitarea.txt or UNITAREA.txt. Suffixes and prefixes around the file
basename are also possible while choosing the plain text option: thus, my_UnitArea.txt
will be considered as a UnitArea.txt file, e.g. the input file that contains the information
about the relationships between areas and territorial units.
9