Where Are the Air Mile Radius Maps?
If you came here looking to buy an air mile radius map for your business, school, personal use, etc., you may have noticed my order page is missing.
At this moment I am not making maps to order. I am working out a much better method with which to kick-off 2010, with better, more useful and cheaper maps for you … so enjoy the holidays and I’ll see you in January.
However, if you really need a map between now and then, even on Christmas Day (Mmm, maybe not that day), just email at davestarr (at) gmail (dot) com and we’ll get you/keep you in business.
Thanks to the surprising number of folks who came by and ordered because these maps were very useful to them, and a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a healthy, happy and profitable 2010.
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Finally a New MapPoint — Better Features
Tuesday – October 2, 2009
MapPoint 2010 Released, MapPoint 2010 New Features and Articles, and More
Welcome to another issue of the MP2Kmag Update. Microsoft recently released MapPoint 2010 with significant new features such as the Map Setting pane. This new pane allows users to control the amount of detail displayed for 17 separate mapping layers and the ability to add more or remove labels from the map. Click on the thumbnail to the right to see examples of the new Map Settings options in action.
Several other very useful enhancements include the ability to Hide a pushpin set, import / export to .gpx files, a lot more Pushpin Symbols to choose from (basically everything from MapPoint 2006 and MapPoint 2009 combined), and of course updated mapping and place data. See Richard Marsden’s article below which talks about and gives an overview of MapPoint 2010’s new features. Also in this newsletter, we have provided a list of the MapPoint 2010 API changes for developers to take a quick glance at all the very welcome additions to the Object Model.
We have also assembled a number of links and resources for MapPoint 2010 on this page on MapForums – MapPoint 2010 Information.
MP2K Magazine is your source for independent news and information about MapPoint and Virtual Earth technologies and we also host the popular web forum for MapPoint users and developers (www.mapforums.com).
This Issue’s Contents at a Glance
- Automating MapPoint with Excel VBA – Tutorial 7
- List of MapPoint 2010 API Changes – New Methods, Objects, and Properties
- MapPoint Consultants and Products Directories
- MP2K Magazine / MapForums Twitter Channel
- Get Published in MP2K Magazine
- An Overview of the New Features in Microsoft MapPoint 2010
- Using the New MapFeatures Collection and MapFeature Objects in MapPoint 2010
Happy Mapping and please forward this newsletter to anyone who would be interested!
Eric Frost, Editor
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What Is an Air Mile?
Many of our clients ask for “Air Miles Maps” because they found us through a search on keywords like “Radius maps” or “Circle maps”. But normally only the folks working on FMCSA compliance issues really want “Air Miles”. There are a lot of definitions for “mile” as you can see in the extract from Wikipedia. read the full article there if you really want to know your miles from a hole in the ground 
Types of mile
In modern usage, various distances are referred to as miles.
International and statute miles
The international mile (and before 1959, the statute mile) is the distance typically meant when the word mile is used without other qualifying words (e.g. nautical mile, see below). The international and statute miles are both equal to 5,280 feet, but the international mile is defined in terms of the international foot (0.3048 m), while the statute miles of the various English-speaking countries were based on the national foot of each country. The (mostly obsolete) U.S. statute mile is based on the U.S. survey foot (which is exactly 1200/3937 m) and differs from the international mile by about 3 mm. [8]
The name statute mile originates from a statute of the Parliament of England in 1592 during the reign of Elizabeth I. This defined the statute mile as 5,280 ft or 1,760 yards; or 63,360 inches. Both statute and international miles are divided into eight furlongs (the length generally that a furrow was ploughed before the horses were turned, furlong = furrow-long). In turn a furlong is ten chains (a surveyor’s chain, used as such until laser range finders took over); a chain is 22 yards and a yard is three feet, making up 5,280 ft.
Other miles in Britain and Ireland
Before the statute of the English parliament, there was confusion on the length of the "mile". The Irish mile was 6,721 feet and the Scottish mile was 5,951 feet.[9] Perhaps the earliest tables of English linear measures, Arnold’s Customs of London (c. 1500) indicates a mile consisted of 8 furlongs, each of 625 feet, for a total of 5,000 feet.[10] For other "miles" see the list below.
Nautical miles
On the utility of the nautical mile
Each circle shown is a great circle – the analog of a line in spherical trigonometry – and hence the shortest path connecting two points on the globular surface. Meridians are great circles that pass through the poles.
Main article: Nautical mile
The nautical mile was originally defined as one minute of arc along a meridian of the Earth.[11] It is a convenient reference since it is fairly constant at all latitudes, in contrast with degrees of longitude which vary from from 1 NM at the equator to zero at the poles.
Navigators use dividers to step off the distance between two points on the navigational chart, then place the open dividers against the minutes-of-latitude scale at the edge of the chart, and read off the distance in nautical miles.[12] Since it is now known that the Earth is not perfectly spherical but an oblate spheroid, the length derived from this method varies slightly from the equator to the poles. For instance, using the WGS84 Ellipsoid, the commonly accepted Earth model for many purposes today, one minute of latitude at the WGS84 equator is 6,087 feet and at the poles is 6,067 feet. On average it is about 6,076 feet (about 1852 meters or 1.15 statute miles).
In the United States of America, the nautical mile was defined in the nineteenth century as 6,080.2 feet (1,853.249 m), whereas in the United Kingdom the Admiralty nautical mile was defined as 6,080 feet (1,853.184 m) and was approximately one minute of latitude in the latitudes of the south of the UK. Other nations had different definitions of the nautical mile, but it is now internationally defined to be exactly 1,852 meters.
The nautical mile per hour is known as the knot. Nautical miles and knots are almost universally used for aeronautical and maritime navigation because of their relationship with degrees and minutes of latitude and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring…
So we’ll be happy to make you a map in almost any unit you wish (see our Air Miles map order page here). but if you ask for Air Miles, be sure that’s what you really want … or your map will be “correct” but in “error” at the same time.
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