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Now Taking Orders for MapPoint 2009 We are now taking orders for MapPoint 2009 with our free MapPoint Power Tools spreadsheet (recently updated) for $269. Orders include free shipping within the U.S. and a 6 month premiere subscription on MapForums.com, the MapPoint and Virtual Earth discussion site. 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 Quarterly Technical Briefing Johannes Kebeck of Microsoft recently presented a "Quarterly Technical Briefing" for Virtual Earth. The full presentation was recorded and is available for download (2 hours and 18 minutes, 30MB). The presentation includes an introduction to Virtual Earth, what's new in Live Search Maps version 6.1, and getting started with development including: resources, adding vector data, importing vector data, database access, adding raster data, transaction counting, and what's new in the Virtual Earth API. The presentation concluded with recent trends and tips & tricks for developers. Register and download the presentation.

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Programming MapPoint in .NET Chandu Thota's New Book from O'Reilly Press Free USPS Priority Shipping $48 The first and only book in print on programming MapPoint technologies. The book includes sections on MapPoint 2004, the MapPoint Web Service, MapPoint Location Server, and Virtual Earth. The books is 354 pages chock full of programming examples and map screenshots. For example, the book spends 40 pages discussing in depth the various Data Map styles in MapPoint 2004, dissects the DisplayDataMap method in detail, and has a number of examples of importing data from various sources. There are over 100 pages on the MapPoint Web Service including sections on the Find, Route, and Render API's. Take your MapPoint programming to the next level! Order and get Free USPS Priority Shipping!

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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. "Excel Basics to Blackbelt": A Reference Text for MapPoint Integration Dr. Elliot Bendoly shares information about his new textbook which includes information about integrating Excel and MapPoint. Routene Excel and MapPoint Update John Sewell introduces and explains the features in the latest version of Routene, an Excel spreadsheet for of physical supply chain and logistics applications. A full version of Routene is now available for purchase. Using Virtual Earth with OpenLayers This article by Richard Marsden shows you how to create a Virtual Earth base layer in an OpenLayers application. OpenLayers is an open source Javascript project which receives the layer map data from one or many different sources including WFS, Yahoo, WorldWind, Google, TileCache, TMS, and GML. 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).

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