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What's New at MP2K Magazine Published Yesterday Our most recent newsletter was published yesterday and it now archived online - http://www.mp2kmag.com/update/mappoi...er/2009-03-24/ Highlights include another installment of our MapPoint / Excel VBA programming tutorials and the announcement of the new MapPoint Consultant and Products directories on MapForums. You can view all the archived newsletters and subcribe on this page: http://www.mp2kmag.com/update/ Happy Mapping!

	RECENT NEWS

OnStar Uses Microsoft Virtual Earth for Emergency Response Services OnStar, in conjunction with the Virtual Earth team, announced the use of Microsoft Virtual Earth for its emergency response services today. OnStar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Motors, is a provider of in-vehicle safety, security and communication services. OnStar advisors will be able to visualize geographic- and location-based information with Virtual Earth 3D and bird’s eye imagery, which is especially helpful when a vehicle veers off the road or is in visually compromising weather conditions. For more information, you can visit Chris Pendleton’s Virtual Earth blog.

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	LATEST Q & A

mxracer: Export Zip Codes Along A Route Here is what we would like to do: Use the route planner to generate a route as well as a boundary around that route. Let's say the route would be from Boston to New York and we want to have a 25 mile boundary along that route. Now, I want to export all zip codes that either fall within that boundary or cross that boundary. The catch is, I don't want this from data I've already imported, I just want the standard zip codes already in MapPoint. ... NN11101: Importing from Excel troubleshooting Hi all, I am trying to import a list of zip codes from an Excel sheet into MapPoint. The list includes zip codes between New York and New Jersey. Mappoint doesn't show me the New Jersey zip codes territories on the map as it does not recognize the numbers. I have tried formatting the numbers in a number of ways but without success. Can someone please assist? Thanks in advance. ... gres67gs: MP 2009 Pushpin Question Hi All I'm having problems getting my pushpin's to work as needed. It looks like I have 2 set's of pushpins in my template and my map's will alway default to the second set of course I need the first set and I now have to scroll up every time I start a new import. How do I clean this up? were do the actual pushpins reside can I just find and delete the unwanted pins? all I really need is the first 64 pins starting with 001 black pin and ending with 064 Purple triangle. Thanks frank G ... Wilfried: MVP I'm back in for a year :) This give me of course encourage to give more energy to help! And I will do of course!!!! ...

	ARTICLES

Subscribe via RSS The articles list is now available for syndication on your web site or your favorite RSS news aggregator/reader. BackAndForwardUtility: A Simple .NET Add-in for Microsoft MapPoint MapPoint 2009 introduced a new redesigned and streamlined interfaced which eliminated a couple of little-used buttons - the back and forward buttons for navigating map views. Richard Marsden shows how to get the functionality back using a .NET Add-in. Functional Programming with MapPoint and F#: Part 2 In this, the second of a two-part article on functional programming with MapPoint, Richard Marsden uses F# in a practical example classifying data points as wetlands based on hydrology, vegetation, and soil measurements. Functional Programming with MapPoint and F#: Part 1 The first of two articles by Richard Marsden on MapPoint and F#. Recently released as a full product by Microsoft, F# can be used as a functional language or as an imperative or object-oriented language, and is useful for multi-threaded programming. Calling MapPoint from C# with Late Binding Richard Marsden shows how to call MapPoint from C# using late binding or dynamic invocation. Late binding has a number of advantages in certain scenarios including being about to support multiple type libraries. Shape Name Utility The Shape Name Utility is a simple utility developed by Richard Marsden that allows a user to examine and/or change the names of MapPoint shapes. This article describes the code and how it works. Roll Your Own Commercial Routing System with MapPoint Matt Fritz shares his experience developing a routing application including discussion of MapPoint's strengths and limitations. The articles includes several screenshots illustrating the various components of the routing application. GPS and Other New Features in MapPoint 2009 Originally written for Laptop GPS World, this review of MapPoint 2009 focuses on users of GPS navigation. If you have questions about other aspects of this product, please address them to Map Forums. "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.

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