Using Microsoft® MapPoint® to Find Routes

As the image to the right shows, MapPoint can be easily used to find optimum routes both long and short. As well as simple route finding, MapPoint supports:

• Finding the quickest or shortest distance.
• Optimise the way-point order to provide the shortest route that visits all way-points.
• Different road speeds.
• Road preferences.
• Zones to be avoided.
• Construction information for your route, that can be updated from the Internet.
• Rest breaks, including overnight breaks.

These "out-of-the-box" features can be readily enhanced with simple utilities. Winwaed has already provided a number of customers with MapPoint routing utilities designed to meet their specific needs. We also sell the MileCharter add-in, which calculates large numbers of routes to create custom mileage charts and tables.

Are you interested in using MapPoint to solve similar problems for your organisation? If so, Contact us and we can get MapPoint working efficiently to solve your business problems.

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