Even Better Maps Are Coming!
I started this site because I was getting tons of traffic to my GPS Tracking News and Commentary site regarding Air Mile Maps and various related issues. I am pretty much a one-trick pony in this area, although I worked for years I\on projects in the GIS (Geographic Information Systems field, I am not a GIS practitioner by any stretch of the imagination. I am pretty conversant with Microsoft MapPoint software though and I really feel it is one of Microsoft’s hidden gems … like many other applications MSFT has picked up over the years, they have virtually no clue about marketing it.
They sometimes make it look like an over-priced /next step’ for the Street Maps crowd, and this is wrong placement for sure. They sometimes try to act as if it is a full-fledged replacement for a "real" GIS product such as ESRI’s ArcView, and certainly it is not that. But as a tool that nearly every business or government organization can afford, and that normal bushiness people can use, it’s a great bargain and a very much untapped resource.
The latest version of MapPoint (2009) is getting ready to ship … you can buy it from the convenient link right there in the right-hand column, and you can join a really useful and interesting online resource for MapPoint users.
MP2K — The Magazine for MapPoint Users … all the news that’s fit to print about MapPoint and how to use it in your business, free. Recommended.
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