ABSTRACT
A juxtaposition of profound technological advances has allowed the creation of new geographical imaginaries, constituted through interactive possibilities offered by multi- and hypermedia. Multimedia is an altogether different method for information provision that offers a more holistic approach to the representation and understanding of geographical information. Artefacts like maps, air photographs, gazetteers, lists, photographs and videotapes may all cover an area of interest. Hypermedia is the very essence of multimedia and makes multimedia products ‘work’ by linking the essential ingredients together. Historically, multimedia delivers tools that facilitate geographical exploration in the form of tactile, discrete or distributed systems. Before the Web the Internet was used to deliver mapping products and datasets. By far the most significant use of multimedia in the first decade of the twenty-first century has come from its deployment on the Web. ultimedia components can also be classified according to four continua: interactivity, vividness, accessibility and malleability.
