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MapPoint 2006

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Programming MapPoint in .NET

The new book Programming MapPoint in .NET is now in stock and shipping from MP2Kmag. Order your copy and receive free USPS Priority shipping.

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.

Using MapPoint and Excel for Supply Chain Management

John Sewell submitted this 3000 line application developed using MapPoint and Excel which performs a number of functions related to Supply Chain Management

Creating Geocoding Exceptions for MapPoint Web Service Applications

Stephen Pushee wrote this article on resolving geocoding exceptions when using the MapPoint Web Service. "For example, a user might supply St. Thomas as a city name when searching for St. Thomas the island, not knowing that Charlotte Amalie is the main city on St. Thomas."

Using Python to Control MapPoint, Part 2

Second of a two-part article by Richard Marsden on scripting MapPoint using Python. In this part Richard shows how to use Python to plot the �250 largest cities in California�.

Implementing Location-Based Functionalities with the MapPoint Web Service

This article by Mohanraj Annamalai illustrates how to find the center point from a set of Latitudes and Longitudes. The article also discusses how to programmatically generate a map using the Microsoft MapPoint Web Service and implement interactive features like: re-centering a map based on the clicked location, panning north, south, east, and west.

MP2Kmag Talks with Fresh Logic Studios

A few weeks ago we conducted an e-mail interview with the folks at Fresh Logic Studios. We talk about their Atlas application and plans for future development.

Using Python to Control MapPoint, Part 1

First of two articles by Richard Marsden on scripting MapPoint using Python. This article demonstrates how to get started with PythonWin and MapPoint.

Snap to a Road

Wilfried Mestdagh's article shows how to take a lat/lon and find the nearest road relative to that point. The technique, written entirely in Delphi, employs reverse geocoding and determines the lat/lon using a CalcXY routine.

What's New in Streets and Trips 2006

Marvin Hlavac shares a summary of the useful new features and highlights of the consumer product Streets and Trips 2006 including GPS navigation features, Virtual Earth integration and the new Night View.

MWS 4.0 - Frequently Asked Questions

This document lists the new features in MWS 4.0 and answers questions about the licensing model and pricing, the partner program, MapPoint Location Server, and Virtual Earth.

MapPoint Web Service 4.0 Fact Sheet

MapPoint Web Service supports Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) interfaces, allowing developers to easily build location-based services into their applications.

Getting Started with the Virtual Earth Map Control

Eric shares a very bare-bones example of adding the Virtual Earth control to a web page leaving it to the reader who can hack away with Javascript and html to create a more fully-fledged implementation.

Virtual Earth: Frequently Asked Questions � July 2005

MSN Virtual Earth is an exciting new component of Microsoft's Search vision that gives consumers a deeply immersive search experience where they see what it's like to be in a location and explore what they can do there.

Excel User-Defined Functions and MapPoint

David Hager demonstrates how to incorporate MapPoint functionality into a user-defined Excel function

MapPoint Automation with C/C++ - Part 2

This is the second of three articles by Sergey Kostrov on automating MapPoint with C/C++. In this installment, Sergey demostrates how to automate MapPoint from a MS SQL Server Extended Stored procedure.

MapPoint Automation with C/C++ - Part 1

This is the first of three articles by Sergey Kostrov on automating MapPoint with C/C++ starting with a simple C/C++ application.