AN INTERACTIVE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC ATLAS OF
(ASEIT)
Mohsen DHIEB
Professor of cartography,
Faculty Letters of Humanities and,
"SYFACTE Laboratory",
The Tunisian cartographic context is
characterized by the lack of national atlas ; it could
only corroborate the project of the Laboratory SYFACTE of a complete
socioeconomic Atlas of Tunisia with constitution of an updatable and available
data base to the demand, creation of a Web site, creation of an atlas more
simplified for educational or educational needs....
An essential component of the project consists
in producing an interactive version of the Atlas (ASEIT) that can be
facilitated a lot by a Tunisan-French cooperation
between the Laboratory SYFACTE and the team of Research RIATE that already
developed the HYPERCARTE application, either a tool of cartography and spatial multiscalar analysis finalized initially on an
international space, the regions of the European union and that could be tested
and validated on a national space, Tunisia.
Indeed, the functions of basis of the
HYPERCARTE application to study the European regions could be adapted to the
Tunisian case that, at the end of the account, will oblige to finalize a more
general computer solution than the initial solution.
This ASEIT program calls on complementary two
types of approach : the approaches " numeric", with a specific work on the
geographical and cartographic systems of information (SCAO, SGBD, SIG.) and on
their modules of interactivity, and them "
thematic approaches" with an
exam and an investigation of the territorial administrative units and the
socioeconomic data.
It is important to notice that