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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.
This article is an overview of the many new features that can be found in MapPoint 2010.
Microsoft MapPoint introduced the ability to switch map features and their labels on or off. Features are grouped and controlled by categories (eg. "large city"). This article lists all these categories and their indices.
Gives the full list of pushpin symbols and their index numbers for Microsoft MapPoint 2010. MapPoint 2010 includes a new set of pushpins based on those in Microsoft MapPoint 2006 & 2004 plus a few additional pins. A full range of pin types and colors (which were lost in MapPoint 2009) are represented.
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 number of pushpins was greatly reduced, and 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.
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.
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 the new Location API in Windows 7, without having to use messy serial interface code that reads NMEA 0183 messages.
This article demonstrates how to use the new MapFeature objects in MapPoint 2010, using examples written in C#.
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 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.
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 discusses the various issues of using MapPoint's COM interface in a multi-threaded environment, and demonstrates the use of multi-processing to improve MapPoint's batch processing speed in Python.
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.
