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MapPoint 2006 Now $234 MapPoint 2006 is now available with our free add-in "Routing and Programming Tools" (recently updated) for $234. The books MapPoint for Dummies and Programming MapPoint in .NET are also available from the store on MapForums.com.

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Virtual Earth 2 A new marketing video highlights what Microsoft has been calling "version 2" of the 3D cities feature in Virtual Earth / Live Local. Video: Microsoft Virtual Earth - Spring 2008 Release We've done a bit of our own exploring and find you can almost walk into the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas!

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MapPoint C# Sample Code and Examples MPDemo is a program written by Wilfried Mestdagh that shows you how to use the most important API features using C#. Using this application you can check out what you want to do and step with the debugger through it to see the code. The code is written using separate classes in separate files as much as possible. Events are used at the places where a GUI update is needed. You will get lifetime free upgrades of the source, even if the price will raise in future. Note that you must have Microsoft .NET version 2 installed to run the executable. Learn More and Download a Free Demo

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Dazzer: I have a jpeg of a mappoint map. The jpeg shows a picture of a polygon. What I want to know is given that I know the length and width of the jpeg (in pixels) and the coordinates of the polygon (in lat lon). How could I convet the lat lon coordinates to x y pixel coordinates. What i'm trying to do is show an this image in a vb .net form and then overlay the image using GDI+ with an interactive polygon. The problem I obviously have is knowing where to plot my polygon. Any ideas would be g... Answer... lucci56: i am new to this forum and I noticed that there is a calpos routine going around . Having looked at the code, I have some concern. It seems that the program is assuming the earth is spherical , ie constant radius. MP is clear about actually using a WGS84 ellipsoid. The error then can easily reach several hundred of meters if using a spherical assumption. Anybody has concerns about that or I am actually wrong? Has anybody checked how MP actually computes distances between 2 points? Thanks.... Answer... MartinH: Hi, my problem is, that I need the PostalCode to be shown at the SearchWindow. But I couldn't find any posibility to show the PostalCode at the results of the search. So I started to create my own searchwindow by using the FindResults-Method. But anyway I get a error returned. This is my code: The line where the error is being returned is marked. I'm using VB6.0. [code:1:4a443cfa05] Dim objApp As New MapPoint.Application Dim objMap As MapPoint.Map Dim strAddress As String Dim... Answer...

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Subscribe via RSS The articles list is now available for syndication on your web site or your favorite RSS news aggregator/reader. A Simple Add-in for MapPoint API Beginners Richard Marsden's latest article shows step by step how to create a MapPoint COM Add-in using Visual Basic to draw circles around pushpins. Includes complete source code and screenshots. The MapPoint Web Service Helper - Part II: Mobile Application Development This article describes how the MapPoint Web Service Helper can be used to quickly and easily write Visual Basic 2005 mobile applications that make use of the Microsoft MapPoint Web Service. Handling Pushpin Collisions Wilfried Mestdagh shares a solution for reducing the number of pushpins that must be displayed on a map The MapPoint Web Service Helper - Part I: Windows and Web Applications This article describes how the MapPoint Web Service Helper can be used to quickly and easily write Visual Basic 2005 Windows and Web applications that make use of the Microsoft MapPoint Web Service. Automating MapPoint in C++ With Built In GPS Features Enabled Jonathan Oppelaar shows how he used techniques to overcome limitations in the MapPoint API to make MapPoint a better navigation platform for Project54, a in-car law enforcement system currently in use in over 1,000 vehicles. Building an Animated Map with Flash Demo Builder John Meyer shows how to create an animated Flash map using MapPoint and Flash Demo Builder. This can be used for demonstrations and allows interactive capability with the map. Using Virtual Earth to Write a Vista Gadget That Tracks the International Space Station This is the second part of two articles about writing Vista Gadgets that use Virtual Earth. The first part ("Using Virtual Earth in a Vista Gadget") showed you how to write a Vista Gadget that showed a simple interactive map using Virtual Earth. This second part extends the gadget into something more useful: A Tracker for the International Space Station (ISS). Determing Whether A Point Is Located Inside Polygon Wilfried Mestdagh wrote this article on determing whether a vehicle is located inside or outside a convex polygon. "Simplify the polygon by make triangles from it one by one, until we have a triangle where the point is inside. At the end we only have to verify if the point is in the last triangle." Using Virtual Earth in a Vista Gadget Richard Marsden shows how to configure a Vista Gadget to pull from Virtual Earth. "Vista gadgets are simply HTML files, and are hence very easy to write." An API to Control MapPoint 2006 GPS Features - Part I of II Paul Larson shares an API he developed to add programmatic GPS functionality to MapPoint code projects and includes a demo to illustrate how the API works.

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