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The Latest Articles from MP2Kmag - The Magazine for Microsoft MapPoint Technologies

MWS 4.0 - Frequently Asked Questions - (Found July 2, 2008 )

This document lists the new features in MWS 4.0 and answers questions about the licensing model and pricing, the partner program, MapPoint Location Server, and Virtual Earth.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a128--web.service.4.0.faq.mappoint.html

MapPoint Web Service 4.0 Fact Sheet - (Found July 2, 2008 )

MapPoint Web Service supports Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) interfaces, allowing developers to easily build location-based services into their applications.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a127--MWS.4.0.web.service.faq.mappoint.html

Getting Started with the Virtual Earth Map Control - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Eric shares a very bare-bones example of adding the Virtual Earth control to a web page leaving it to the reader who can hack away with Javascript and html to create a more fully-fledged implementation.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a126--virtual.earth.control.programming.mappoint.html

Using Virtual Earth in a Vista Gadget - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Richard Marsden shows how to configure a Vista Gadget to pull from Virtual Earth. "Vista gadgets are simply HTML files, and are hence very easy to write."
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a138--vista.gadget.mappoint.html

Determing Whether A Point Is Located Inside Polygon - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Wilfried Mestdagh wrote this article on determing whether a vehicle is located inside or outside a convex polygon. "Simplify the polygon by make triangles from it one by one, until we have a triangle where the point is inside. At the end we only have to verify if the point is in the last triangle."
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a139--point.in.polygon.mappoint.html

MapPoint 2006 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

MP2Kmag is now accepting orders for MapPoint 2006. See page for more details and shipping information.
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Programming MapPoint in .NET - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The new book Programming MapPoint in .NET is now in stock and shipping from MP2Kmag. Order your copy and receive free USPS Priority shipping.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/programming_mappoint_net.asp

"Excel Basics to Blackbelt": A Reference Text for MapPoint Integration - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Dr. Elliot Bendoly shares information about his new textbook which includes information about integrating Excel and MapPoint.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a149--excel.blackbelt.mappoint.html

Routene Excel and MapPoint Update - (Found July 2, 2008 )

John Sewell introduces and explains the features in the latest version of Routene, an Excel spreadsheet for of physical supply chain and logistics applications. A full version of Routene is now available for purchase.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a148--routene.excel.mappoint.html

Using Virtual Earth with OpenLayers - (Found July 2, 2008 )

This article by Richard Marsden shows you how to create a Virtual Earth base layer in an OpenLayers application. OpenLayers is an open source Javascript project which receives the layer map data from one or many different sources including WFS, Yahoo, WorldWind, Google, TileCache, TMS, and GML.
http://www.mp2kmag.com/a147--open.layers.mappoint.html