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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.