Programming MapPoint in .NET by Chandu Thota

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Interactive internet maps generated by means of MapPoint-Microsoft's well known mapping expertise are an important for companies in a couple of fields, together with genuine property, package deal supply, and advertisement air shuttle. In a notice, MapPoint presents companies with "location." in particular, it offers an built-in set of goods, servers, and companies to permit a enterprise to trace the appropriate position of distant resources, thereby decreasing operational expenditures and bettering productiveness. even if the asset is a truck, a taxi, or perhaps a box rep, MapPoint can inform you precisely the place it really is at any time.Programming MapPoint in .NET from O'Reilly exhibits you ways to exploit MapPoint to construct customized purposes for the machine, the internet, and cellular units. The ebook additionally explains how you can research and percentage information generated from quite a lot of maps, together with those who exhibit demographic traits, inhabitants density, and revenues power. Chandu Thota, certainly one of Microsoft's major MapPoint builders and the book's writer, has prepared the cloth into 4 significant sections, every one devoted to a unique MapPoint technology:MapPoint 2004 - calculating routes, rendering facts maps, integrating with international Positioning process (GPS) for acquiring real-time position MapPoint net carrier - suggestions for locating attractions, growing purposes utilizing the locate APIs and path APIs, rendering LineDrive maps and polygonsMapPoint position Server - deployment situations, getting real-time position utilizing cellphones, handling contacts and privateness settings MSN digital Earth - the fundamentals of programming with new MSN digital Earth APIs The publication offers a jumpstart for operating with those applied sciences, together with in-depth discussions concerning the center recommendations and pattern code supplied in C#. it really is perfect for a person who desires to strengthen locations-based purposes with MapPoint applied sciences. the subsequent time you keep on with on-line instructions to the airport, you could chalk up an support to MapPoint's state of the art interactive mapping talents. larger but, you are going to know the way to create that very same kind of map your self.

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GeoWest, 1); Given this information, you could write a smart Pan method that pans by a certain distance at all altitudes. You would need the altitude to pan the distance ratio to calculate the correct pan value at a given altitude and distance. 88568304395 for altitudes up to 6,000 miles, above which the factor becomes non-linear. geoWest, panFactor); This code always pans the map the specified distance. This is very useful if you want to pan your map by a certain distance to show specific locations on the map.

Figure 2-11. Add Tab context menu Programming the MapPoint ActiveX Control | This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Copyright © 2008 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. 39 Name the newly created tab MapPoint ActiveX Control and click on it to add the MapPoint 2004 ActiveX Control reference by selecting Add/Remove Items from the context menu, as shown in Figure 2-12. Figure 2-12. 0 as shown in Figure 2-13. Note that if you have MapPoint 2004 APIs already added to your project, you need to remove that reference before you add ActiveX Control; adding ActiveX Control automatically adds the MapPoint 2004 API reference to your project.

Programming with MapPoint 2004 API | This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Copyright © 2008 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. NET Version 2003 or later, it is easy to add a reference to the MapPoint 2004 APIs using the Add Reference option from the project context menu, as shown in Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2. NET adds it automatically when you drag-and-drop the control on your Windows Form. 0 Object Library (North America) to add the MapPoint 2004 type library as a reference to your project, as shown in Figure 2-3.

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