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Welcome to the new Articles Section of the Mapping-Tools.com website! New articles about Microsoft® MapPoint® will be published here on a frequent basis. These will include everything from example applications through to programming guides.
These pages describe the entire range of Microsoft mapping products, from Pocket Streets to the Virtual Earth Web Service.
Gives the full list of distinct colors supported by Microsoft MapPoint. MapPoint's programming interface provides for 16777216 colors, but these are mapped to a much smaller palette of 40 colors.
Investigates and discusses apparent GPS errors in Microsoft MapPoint.
Gives the full list of pushpin symbols and their index numbers for Microsoft MapPoint 2009. MapPoint 2009 introduces a completely new set of pushpins that are completely different to the 2002-2006 pushpins. Unfortunately, the documentation was not updated to represent the new pushpin images.
Gives the full list of pushpin symbols and their index numbers for Microsoft MapPoint 2004. Note that the official Microsoft documentation only lists the symbols provided with Microsoft MapPoint 2002.
This example uses MapPoint 2004 to analyze the infamous Florida results for the 2000 US Presidential Election. The 'Butterfly Ballot' hypothesis is tested using election data and vote tallies. Did large numbers of Palm Beach voters accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan?
This example analyzes airline delay statistics. Which airports are responsible for the poor FAA statistics? A possible explanation is identified using data supplied with Microsoft MapPoint.
Microsoft's MapPoint application is an excellent tool for creating road routes long and short.
This example uses MapPoint's demographic data to analyze the potential for a new golf course. These demographics are also used to assess the viability of a new 'family golf course' concept.
This example demonstrates the use of MapPoint for geographic cluster analysis using John Snow's famous data for the 1854 Broadstreet Cholera outbreak in London.
The Virtual Earth articles have been moved from Mapping-Tools.com to the new GeoWeb Guru website.
This article demonstrates how to use MapPoint from C++, without resorting to the use of MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). MFC is large and cumbersome when compared to more modern C++ libraries.
This article shows how to create a simple, but useful add-in using Visual Basic 6. This add-in draws a circle around all pushpins in the current map.
This article shows you how to control MapPoint using Python scripts, and includes an example that processes US Census data to produce a map of US cities that meet specific constraints.
This article shows you how to call MapPoint from C# using late binding. This does not require a COM interop to be created at compile time.
Part one of this article demonstrates how to call MapPoint from F# using both early and late binding.
The second part of this article provides a practical example of using F# with MapPoint, that classifies pushpins according to their data fields.
