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I have read you can zoom the map to any lat/long from code once done can you display an icon at that specific point ?

What is the likely overhead of doing this many times in a small area leaving thse icons on the map

david

To do this, simply add a pushpin. The following code does the trick:

(MapPoint must be started)



<pre>
' Attach to running instance of MapPoint
Set oMpApp = GetObject(, "MapPoint.Application")

' Retrieve the active map
Dim oMap As MapPoint.Map
Set oMap = oMpApp.ActiveMap

' Set a pushpin at 49 North, 10 East
Dim oPin As MapPoint.Pushpin
Set oPin = oMap.AddPushpin(oMap.GetLocation(49, 10))

' Set the symbol property of the pushpin
oPin.Symbol = 42
</pre>

Check out the documentation of the Symbol property of the Pushpin object for available symbols. MapPoint 2002 supports adding your own icons, their symbol codes start at 256.



The overhead / efficiency largely depends on type of CPU and amount of memory available.



-gk