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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