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Caravel - Microsoft's Next Generation Platform for Mobile MappingSteve Lombardi discussed "Caravel", MapPoint's next generation platform for maps and navigation on mobile devices, at a recent WE-DIG user meeting on Microsoft's campus. Steve Lombardi is the MapPoint Technologist Evangelist and he also presented information about the MapPoint Location Server.
MapPoint Technology May Be Featured in New MSN Search
From
ClickZ News - "Microsoft
is expected today to take the wraps off the beta of its new search
engine, which incorporates natural language, local and personalized
search features. The new search engine -- which lets users select tabs
for Web, images, news or music searches -- is the result of two years
of development work at the software giant." Microsoft will likely
"continue to build its own proprietary content -- such as from
Microsoft Money and Microsoft MapPoint -- into the search engine."
VRP
for Vehicle-Optimization Released"Based
on MapPoint we developed VRP for vehicle-optimization. VRP will help
you
in the daily work of planning and dispatching your milkrun-tours. The
input-data as customer, delivery, vehicle and driver are stored in
a database and can be imported via the import-wizard from Excel-files."
Click the thumbnail on
the right to view a full screenshot.
TerraViewer for MapPoint BETA Available
TerraViewer
is an add-on
to Microsoft MapPoint 2002 (and above) that integrates the TerraServer
USA web service seamlessly into the MapPoint North American Maps
desktop product. The product enables end users to view terabytes of
United States Geological Survey (USGS) archived aerial photography and
sixteen color topographic maps locally on their desktop via a simple
user interface directly within MapPoint.
Winwaed Announces MileCharter for MapPoint
Winwaed
Software
Technology released their MileCharter add-in for MapPoint. MileCharter
is capable of automatically calculating mileage tables and charts
including route distances, travel times and estimated costs. Output is
in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
Chandu Thota's Top 10 MapPoint Moments of the Year 2004
"With
only a few hours left in this
year 2004, I thought it would be fun to look back and list out top 10
“MapPoint Moments” of the year. The following list
is what
I could come up with (in chronological order)..."
Mobile GPS Online releases GPSTrack Version 4.0.0
Mobile GPS
Online announced the release of GPSTrack Standard Version 4.0.0.
GPSTrack is a powerful yet low-cost vehicle tracking and management
system. GPSTrack version 4.0.0 is a combination of the GPSTrackP
software for GPS passive tracking and GPSTrackRT software for real time
tracking.
KMS
Systems Enhances Security with GeoDoorsMonitoring
of security
operations has now come into the Network Operations Center (NOC) as a
key to insuring network reliability and uptime. As the scope of work in
the NOC has expanded, the need for intuitive interfaces has increased.
KMS Systems Inc, known for its custom computer-based Access Control
Systems, recognized this and has integrated operation and monitoring of
physical security with Microsoft MapPoint 2004.
Reverse Geocoding DLL
"Having worked on Mappoint from MP2000 and still reading about people needing to get the Street / Town / Postcode etc from Coords. We have created a DLL that can be called from any application. It works with MapPoint Europe and MapPoint North America."
M.J. Menefee Construction Wins Constructech Vision Award
"Bidhistory.com
provides
a fast, direct method to get reliable starting numbers I can tweak."
Menefee further refines his numbers for his cost estimate using The
Dispatcher's mapping capabilities backed by Microsoft MapPoint. Knowing
the exact distance and route from any haul origin to any jobsite gives
me accurate costs to enter into my bid."
Microsoft
Corp. announced
Smarter Hospitality, a comprehensive solutions framework designed to
help lodging and foodservice organizations dramatically improve the way
they interact with their guests and operate while meeting the
expectations of digitally enabled guests and employees.
More Countries Digitized with Universal Addresses
NAC
Geographic Products
Inc. has announced that Australia, Greece and Slovakia have been added
to the countries digitized with Universal Addresses and Natural Area
Codes raising the number of the Universal Address digitized countries
to 22.
Finally, in the Putting MapPoint Technology to Good Use Category --
UK Pub Finder
"This page is a demonstration of Microsoft MapPoint. It searches the pubs recommended by The Good Pub Guide and also those pubs suggested by its readers."
Finally, in the Putting MapPoint Technology to Good Use Category --
UK Pub Finder
"This page is a demonstration of Microsoft MapPoint. It searches the pubs recommended by The Good Pub Guide and also those pubs suggested by its readers."
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The Geography Olympics
I
originally spotted this
site being mentioned on the MapInfo-L discussion list - www.geographyolympics.com.
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