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MapPoint alternative

I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia, but
mainly the UK. This service costs me £4500/year (for 100,000 hits I think,
of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up the map
images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.

What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I were
allowed to keep the maps server side.
Nov 7 '06 #1
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Not really familiar with the service but I know that
Google and Yahoo have MAP APIs.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

I am actually using Yahoo's Geo APIs to get longitude and latitude of the US
address.

George
"JosephByrns" <jo*********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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>I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia,
but mainly the UK. This service costs me £4500/year (for 100,000 hits I
think, of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up
the map images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.

What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I
were allowed to keep the maps server side.


Nov 7 '06 #2
And may not charge, depending on your business type. If mapping is core to
business, however, you will have to pay.

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Gregory A. Beamer
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"George Ter-Saakov" <gt****@cardone.comwrote in message
news:eg**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
Not really familiar with the service but I know that
Google and Yahoo have MAP APIs.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

I am actually using Yahoo's Geo APIs to get longitude and latitude of the
US address.

George
"JosephByrns" <jo*********@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:OC**************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia,
but mainly the UK. This service costs me £4500/year (for 100,000 hits I
think, of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up
the map images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.

What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I
were allowed to keep the maps server side.



Nov 8 '06 #3

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