Last week I started discussing extracting pushpin data from Microsoft MapPoint 2004. Pushpins in MapPoint are markers that you can place anywhere on a MapPoint map. There are several hundred visual ...

One of the most important things a computer can do is give small businesses the same tools that benefit corporate giants, but in easy-to-use and affordable packages. Today, I want to introduce you to ...

Businesses and individuals still using Microsoft’s MapPoint and Streets & Trips need to start thinking about alternatives. Microsoft is discontinuing both products, according to notices posted on ...

Need to put a mapping data in your application? Microsoft’s first commercial Web service may just be the solution you are looking for. This year at TechEd, Microsoft launched MapPoint Web services ...

Little did we know but it seems that our office wobbles. At least, it wobbles according to the latest version of Microsoft MapPoint 2006 with GPS Locator. We’ve been big fans of MapPoint since its ...

Microsoft said Thursday that it has completed a $96 million acquisition of Vicinity, the maker of online mapping service Mapblast.com. The software giant announced its intention to acquire Vicinity in ...

MapPoint .Net is not Microsoft’s first attempt at providing mapping capabilities to developers. MapPoint, the desktop mapping app in Microsoft Office, uses ActiveX to embed maps in applications. In ...