MapPoint

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MapPoint Virtual Earth
Johannes Kebeck Virtual Earth Technology
Specialist jkebeck_at_microsoft.com
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Microsoft Location Based Services
MapPoint (Desktop)

• MapPoint Web Service
• Intranet (e.g. CRM, MOM)
• Internet (e.g. Hotspot Locator)

• Virtual Earth
• Intranet (e.g. Network Maps)
• Extranet (e.g. Mobile App)

MapPoint Location Server (Tracking)
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Mapping _at_ Microsoft

• Vicinity acquisition
• 2004 Versions of Desktop Procukts

• MWS 3.5
• MapPoint Location Server
• Pocket Streets for SmartPhone

• MapPoint Web Service (MWS)

• Mobile Business applications

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2003

• MapPoint Web Service 4.0
• Virtual Earth / Windows Live Local
• AutoRoute 2006
• Pocket Streets 2006
• MapPoint Web Service 4.1
• Virtual Earth European coverage
• MapPoint 2006

• MapPoint BU founded
• First Products for the end customer

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2005
1999
2006
1995
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MapPoint Product Portfolio
Consumer
Business
Location platform Developers integrate geospatial
data in custom applications and business
processes
Friend Finder
Analysis in criminal statistics
CRM
Store-Locator
Real estate
Fleet Management
Travel Finder
MapPoint Web Service
MP Location Server
Yellow Pages
Mobile Services
Logistics
Business Intelligence
Games
Navigation
Location applications For end users of desktops
and mobile devices
Maps Directions
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• Location Based Analysis and more on the Desktop
• Standard Features
• COM Add-Ins
• Development
• New in MP06

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• Location Based Analysis and more on the Desktop
• Standard Features
• COM Add-Ins
• Development
• New in MP06

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MapPoint 2004 / 2006

• Territory planning
• Drive time zones
• Find (geocode) address or POI
• Route planning optimization
• Data-import/export from/to Excel, Access,
  databases
• Outlook integration
• Maps for location based analysis and
  visualization of your data
• GPS support
• Spatial data import from ESRI Shape files (SHP)
  and MapInfo (MIF) data
• Application Programming Interface

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Demo

• MapPoint 2004 / 2006
• Standard Features
• Tutorial
• DriveTime Zones

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DriveTime Zones
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Location Based BI
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Demo

• MapPoint 2004 / 2006
• Standard Features
• Office Plug-Ins
• UDL

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Unified Data Link
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Pocket Streets 2006
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• Location Based Analysis and more on the Desktop
• Standard Features
• COM Add-Ins
• Development
• New in MP06

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Demo

• MapPoint 2004 / 2006
• COM Add-Ins
• GPS Import
• Spatial Data Import

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Output Areas

• base unit of 2001 Census outputs.
• based on groups of postcodes and fit within the
  boundaries of electoral wards/divisions and
  parishes as at the end of 2002.
• There are 175,434 OAs in England and Wales, of
  which 165,665 are in England and 9769 in Wales.
• The minimum population of OAs is 100 and the mean
  300.
• More details are available at http//www.statistic
  s.gov.uk/geography/census_geog.asp

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Super Output Areas

• a new geographic hierarchy designed to improve
  the reporting of small area statistics in England
  and Wales
• first statistical application was for the Indices
  of Deprivation in March 2004, giving them instant
  publicity and usage across the local government
  sector
• England and Wales have three layers of SOA
  (Lower, Middle and Upper) which, unlike wards,
  are of regular size and are not subject to
  regular boundary change
• Basically the regions are related to Census
  population reports of 2001

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Lower Layer SOAs

• were introduced in February 2004. They are built
  from groups of contiguous OAs
• They were automatically generated to be as
  consistent in population size as possible,
  typically containing from four to six OAs.
• There are 34,378 Lower Layer SOAs in England and
  Wales, of which 32,482 are in England and 1896 in
  Wales.
• The minimum population of Lower Layer SOAs is
  1000 and the mean 1500

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Middle Layer SOAs

• were introduced in August 2004. They are built
  from groups of contiguous Lower Layer SOAs and
  are constrained by the boundaries of local
  authorities (LAs) as at the end of 2002.
• They were initially generated to be of consistent
  population size, but were subjected to
  modifications proposed by LAs and their strategic
  partners in a nationwide consultation.
• There are 7193 Middle Layer SOAs in England and
  Wales, of which 6780 are in England and 413 in
  Wales.
• The minimum population of Middle Layer SOAs is
  5000 and the mean 7200.

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Upper Layer SOAs

• The precise nature of Upper Layer SOAs has not
  yet been determined - they are likely to be
  defined in 2006.
• They will however consist of groups of contiguous
  Middle Layer SOAs, and a likely minimum size is
  25,000 residents.
• More details on SOAs are available at
  http//www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/soa.asp

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What can we do with it?

• SOAs are distributed by National Statistics in
  ESRI-Shape and MapInfo MIF-Format for free.
• The good news is, we can work wit the data. The
  bad news there is some work to do
• The data comes in British National Grid Format.
  So first we have to convert it to WGS 84 to make
  it accessible in MapPoint 2004 and MapPoint We
  Service.
• The data quality is not really good from a
  spatial perspective. E.g. we have a lot of self
  intersections which is not a problem for MP04 but
  it will prevent the polygon conversion tool from
  converting it to a MWS-compatible XML-format. So
  there is some data cleansing to do.
• There are 2 datasets for both the LOAs and MOAs.
  A generalized dataset and a more accurate one.
  The accurate one has polygons with more than
  10,000 vertices. This is not usable in MWS. We
  would need the generalized version. Even in MP04
  the available Spatial Data COM Add-In cant
  handle that number of vertices. To make the
  import possible I would need to write a new
  Spatial Data COM Add-In which is not a problem at
  all but it still leaves us with the huge amount
  of data. The MIF-file is more than 300 MB big for
  the 32,482 LOAs and still more than 180 MB for
  the 7,193 MOAs. So even if its doable its not
  reasonable because the resulting MapPoint files
  would bring the MapPoint-performance noticeable
  down. So lets stick with the generalized
  version or break up the whole dataset into
  smaller groups.
• The generalized version of the LOAs is still 42
  MB big and after the import it results in a 25 MB
  MapPoint 2004 file.

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Sample of Generalized LOA
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The Problem
If you have a map with all the suspects and a
unique address to find suspects in the proximity
it is easy to do with the standardfeatures.But
if you only have a name and a street and want to
find suspects nearbyit is more complicated. E.g.
if you look for all suspects near a Westfield Rd
youhave to do the proximity search 180 times.
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The solution

• Automated proximity search
• For small amounts of data in the mapping
  component
• For larger amounts outside the mapping component

a sin(lat1) sin(lat2) b cos(lat1)
cos(lat2) cos(lon2 - lon1) c acos(a b) d
R c where lat equals latitude, lon equals
longitude, R equals the Earth's radius, and d
equals distance. Latitude and longitude are
expressed in radians.
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The solution

• Add columns Latitude and Longitudeto suspect
  addresses
• Geocode existing data

TBL_SUSPECT
PK
Name
Str
City
Zip
County

Lat
Long
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• Location Based Analysis and more on the Desktop
• Standard Features
• COM Add-Ins
• Development
• New in MP06

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Application Stack
Your application
Your application
Your application
VB 6.0/COM VB.NET, C
MapPoint APIs
COM APIs ActiveX Control Managed RCWs
MapPoint find, route, render and data engines
MapPoint Application Framework and Location data
Map and location data
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3 kinds of Applications

• Location data-processing applications
• Use MapPoint 2004 automation internally but dont
  create maps
• Location visual applications
• Display location and thematic maps e,bedded into
  applications using MapPoint 2004
• Add-Ins
• Extend the capabilities of MapPoint 2004

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MapPoint Control
integrated in MS Access
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MapPoint Control
integrated in MS Access
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MapPoint Control
integrated in your custom application
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MapPoint 2004
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MapPoint 2004
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• Location Based Analysis and more on the Desktop
• Standard Features
• COM Add-Ins
• Development
• New in MP06

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MapPoint Europe 2006

• Navteq Q3/05 data
• New
• Bulgaria
• Estonia
• Croatia
• Hungary
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Poland
• Romania
• Slovenia
• Improved Coverage for Finland and Greece

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MapPoint Europe 2006

• Demographic Data

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MapPoint Europe 2006

• Speech output and driving directionslike AR 2006

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MapPoint Europe 2006

• MapStyle Night

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MapPoint Europe 2006

• Location object now returns lat/long

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• MapPoint Web Service

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MSN Maps Directions
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MSN Maps Directions
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MSN Maps Directions
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MSN Maps Directions
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MWS Features

• Service hosted _at_ Microsoft
• cost efficient integration of maps, routes and
  geographic functions in your custom applications
• No software installation
• No installation and update of maps required
• Standard APIs
• transaction or user based billing
• Service Level Agreement

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MapPoint Web Service
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API
FindService

• Geocoding(Address and Place)
• Reverse Geocoding
• Proximity Search(Nearby and NearRoute)
• FindByProperty

RenderService

• Map rendering
• 30 map styles
• Pan / zoom
• Build-In and custom icons
• Prevent Icon Collision

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Urban Insets
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MapStyle Climate
Characteristic climate for areas on the Earth,
defined by long-term weather patterns. Color.
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MapStyle Comprehensive
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MapStyle EarthByDay
Idealized map of the Earth as it looks from space
in daylight without clouds, as a composite of
satellite images. Color.
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MapStyle EarthByNight
Idealized map of the Earth as it looks from space
at night without clouds, as a composite of
satellite images. Color.
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MapStyle EcoRegions
Landscapes, such as forests, woodlands,
grasslands, deserts, and ice. Color.
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MapStyle Languages
Language spoken by a majority of people in an
area. Color.
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MapStyle Locator
Roads and some political geographies, optimized
for overview maps. Color.
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MapStyle LocatorBw
Roads and some political geographies, optimized
for overview maps. High contrast for black and
white printing.
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MapStyle Outline
Current borders of the world's sovereign nations
and their dependencies, and at higher
resolutions, borders between states, provinces,
or other internal subdivisions. Also indicated
are names and locations of selected cities and
towns rivers, lakes, and seas and mountains,
plateaus, deserts, and other physical features.
Color.
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MapStyle Parks
Significant protected areas, such as World
Heritage Sites national, provincial, and state
parks other major reserves and territories
reserved for indigenous peoples in the Americas.
Color.
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MapStyle Phone
Shows roads and political geographies, optimized
for small screens (size ranged from 101 x 80
pixels to 176 x 220 pixels). Color.
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MapStyle PhoneBw
Shows roads and political geographies, optimized
for small screens (size ranged from 101 x 80
pixels to 176 x 220 pixels). High contrast for
black and white printing.
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MapStyle PhysicalFeatures
Landforms and water bodies. Color.
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MapStyle Political
Political geography political entities are shown
in contrasting colors for emphasis. Color.
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MapStyle PoliticalBw
Political geography political entities are shown
in outline. High contrast for black and white
printing.
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MapStyle PopulationDensity
Number of people per square kilometer throughout
the world. Color.
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MapStyle PrecipitationAnnual
Average accumulation of rain or snow over an
entire year. Color.
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MapStyle PrecipitationJanuary
Average accumulation of rain or snow during the
month of January. Color.
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MapStyle PrecipitationJuly
Average accumulation of rain or snow during the
month of July. Color.
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MapStyle Religions
Distribution of the adherents of the world's
major regions. Color.
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MapStyle Road
Roads, highways, towns, and cities. Color.
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MapStyle RoadBw
Roads, highways, towns, and cities. High contrast
for black and white printing.
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MapStyle Small
Roads and political geographies, optimized for
low resolution maps. Color.
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MapStyle SmallBw
Roads and political geographies, optimized for
low resolution maps. High contrast for black and
white printing.
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MapStyle Tectonic
Distribution of plates that make up the Earth's
crust, location of volcanoes and earthquakes, and
age of the floor beneath the seas. Color.
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MapStyle TemperatureJanuary
Average air temperature during the month of
January. Color.
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MapStyle TemperatureJuly
Average air temperature during the month of July.
Color.
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MapStyle Terrain
Roads, highways, towns, cities, and geographic
terrain. Color.
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MapStyle TerrainBw
Roads, highways, towns, cities, and geographic
terrain. High contrast for black and white
printing.
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MapStyle TimeZones
Zones of uniform time recognized by national
agreement. Color.
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Icon Collision Avoidance

• Before stacked, and hidden icons

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Icon Collision Avoidance

• After Icons use leader lines to location

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API
RouteService

• Route planner(shortest/quickestroute)
• Up to 50 stops
• Various colors
• Route itinerary
• Sketches

CommonService

• Language
• Distance Units
• Convert pixel-coordinates to lat/long and vice
  versa

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WW City to City Routing
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Demo

• MapPoint
• Web Service

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Store-Locator
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Store-Locator
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Store-Locator
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Store-Locator
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Since 4.0
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• Client Avis
• Spatial Query
• Polygon retrieved from MP06

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Polygon Support

• Customer Supplied Polygons
• FindPolygon - Point-in-Polygon uses
• Sales/delivery regions Customer is here, what
  pizza delivery region is that?
• Drill Down scenarios show me more information
  about this neighborhood I clicked on, Bostons
  Back Bay
• GeoFencing Alert me when the delivery is within
  50 miles

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Polygon Support (cont.)

• Find Polygons by Rectangle, sample uses
• What polygons are within this grid sector?
• What polygons are within these geographic extents
• Render only those polygons that are completely
  contained in this map view
• Render and label polygons

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Polygon Tools

• Command line conversion tool converts these
  formats into MWS XML format
• SHP - ESRI
• MIF - MapInfo
• DWG - Autodesk
• DGN Intergraph
• GML Geographic Markup Language 3.0
• Polygon Manager for MapPoint 2004
• Draw or edit your polygons on the MapPoint
  desktop environment

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What is a Polygon?

• Closed Shape with at least 3 verticesgt no
  points or lines
• The edges may not intersect each other
• One outer and zero or multiple internal rings.
• The internal ring must be fully enclosed by the
  external ring and can not contain further
  internal rings in it.
• Multi-Polygons are not supported

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Finding Polygons

• By spatial or non-spatial properties
• By Spatial
• LatLonge.g. Point is within or without the
  polygon
• LatLongRectangle

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Formatting a Polygon DS

• For details see the Online-Help on the CSS
• Each polygon data source must contain at least
  one entity, and the file cannot exceed 100
  megabytes (MB)
• According to the documentation Polygon data
  sources can contain a maximum of 100 entities,
  even if the total number of cells for that data
  source does not exceed the maximum (8.75 mio).
  This is a documentation bug. In fact the is no
  limit for the number of polygons on the data
  source but you can render only 100 at a time.
• Polygon data sources can contain a maximum of 500
  vertices per polygon entity
• The schema can contain a maximum of 300 columns,
  including required columns and columns added by
  MapPoint Web Service
• The maximum number of characters per entity is
  2,560
• Each column must have a unique name of no more
  than 50 characters. Column names must be
  XML-compliant that is, they cannot contain
  spaces or reserved characters
• Four columns are required for polygon data
  sources EntityID, EntityGeometry, Latitude, and
  Longitude
• Don't use German Umlauts in the property Name

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Polygon Conversion Tool
Syntax PolyConv.exe ltinput formatgt ltinput
datasetgt ltoutput datasetgt logfile Example po
lyconv SHAPE E\Daten\MapPoint\Lutum\Bundesländer.
shp E\Daten\MapPoint\Lutum\Bundeslaender.xml
E\Daten\MapPoint\Lutum\log.xml
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Alternative GDI-Classes
As an alternative you can use GDI-classes and the
MWS ConvertToPoint-method to handle polygons on
your web server yourself
see http//msdn.microsoft.com/mappoint/mappointwe
b/mappointwstechart/default.aspx?pull/library/en-
us/dnmapnet30/html/_mws_imgmod.asp
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Real-time tracking
http//www.passur.com/sites.htm
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Traffic Incidents
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Traffic Incidents

• Searchable point database of real time traffic
  accidents, backups (slowdowns), closures, etc.
• 70 Metro areas in the US
• Data about the incident, including
• Severity
• Whether or not traffic is being diverted
• Expected Duration
• Expected Delay
• Traffic feed is from TeleAtlas

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MWS integriert in MOM
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MWS integrated in CRM 3.0
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MWS integrated in SAP
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MWS integrated in SharePoint
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on any device
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on any device
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Account Creation

• Client applies on line
• Client receive email to verify
• MS Sales Rep approves or rejects
• MPNET provisions
• Client completes first time registration

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Additional Accounts

• If you are an existing customer

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Sample Applications
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Java, PHP Pearl
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Support

• MPNET - for account issues
• MWSSUPP - for technical issues
• MPCS if you are unsure

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• MapPoint
• Location Server

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MapPoint Location Server
MapPoint Location Server
Mobile Service Provider
3. (Lat, Long)
SMTP Server
MapPoint Web Service
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• Virtual Earth

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Virtual Earth
http//local.live.com
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Virtual Earth - Birds Eye

• Traditional (Ortho-Photo)
• Virtual Earth (Oblique)

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Bill Gates house as ortho-photo
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Bill Gates house as oblique image
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• Virtual Earth
• in the wild

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http//maps.weatherbug.com/
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VE integrated in CRM 3.0
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http//www.johnlscott.com
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• Virtual Earth
• Discovery

Launched 23.05.06
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What a product team does at a RTW evening
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International Expansion

• Ortho photos down to level 19 in UK and CA
• Satellite images down to level 13 worldwide
• Road maps for all countries which have been
  covered in MWS so far
• MSN Messenger integration

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Discovery
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Birds Eye Coverage London
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Birds Eye Coverage St. Albans
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Birds Eye Coverage Dover
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Birds Eye Coverage Brighton
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Birds Eye Coverage Southampton
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Birds Eye Coverage Swindon
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Birds Eye Coverage Cambridge
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Birds Eye Coverage Nottingham
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Birds Eye CoverageBristol
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Birds Eye Coverage Bangor
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New Features

• Place/Address lookups (Geocoding) With a simple
  new Find() method, you can easily add a Where box
  to your application to allow users to input
  addresses, cities/towns, zip codes, landmarks or
  other locations and quickly and easily pinpoint
  them on the map. Support for handling ambiguous
  addresses is included as well.
• Driving Directions/Routing and Polylines Driving
  directions, routing and polylines. The new route
  methods allow developers to quickly enable
  driving directions from one location to another
  in their application. You also can create your
  own custom polylines for highlighting key
  information on maps and imagery.
• Quick data-binding for GeoRSSNow, you can
  quickly a simply bind data to pushpins using the
  standard data format GeoRSS. Just point the
  control at your GeoRSS file or service and it
  will automatically manage the process of creating
  pushpins and pop-ups.
• Public Collection layers Even easier than
  creating a GeoRSS file, you can bind a Windows
  Live Local public collection to the control. Just
  build a public collection of your favorite places
  in your local town or a listing of your business
  locations, drop the map control in your web page
  using the sample code in the SDK and point it to
  your collectionvoila, instant mashup.
• Built in pushpins and pop-upsNow, you can
  quickly use our methods to create pushpins and
  pop-ups in the default style without having to
  design them yourselves. Of course, the very
  popular, simple methods for rolling your own are
  still there as well so you have your choice from
  easy default styles to full look and feel
  control.

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New Features

• What is gone is just as important as what we have
  added
• no more proxies,
• less includes and
• simpler methods.

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GeoRSS
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GeoRSS W3C Vocabulary
ltitemgt  lttitlegtLow Impact A34 Chieveley, both
ways at M4, J13 Chieveley, Chieveleylt/titlegt 
ltdescriptiongtA34 Berkshire - Bridge maintenance
work at the Chieveley junction ltdescriptiongt  
ltlinkgthttp//www.bbc.co.uk/go/travelnews/int/syndi
cation/rss/-/travelnews lt/linkgt  
ltgeolatgt51.45642lt/geolatgt  ltgeolonggt-1.31075lt/
geolonggtlt/itemgt
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Collections
can be published and
stored as favourites
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Traffic Data (US first)
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MSN Messenger Integration
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Demo

• Windows Live Local

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Were planning an EBC at the Microsoft HQ. Our
point of entry in the US is SEATAC. Note Search
results are added to the Scratch-Pad
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We cannot only see the road map but we have also
aerial images and this amazing birds eye view
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And we can even zoom in more. The control is
extremly user friendly. You zoom with the mouse
wheel and pan by gabbing and shifting the map.
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Our first stop is the hotel. So we look for the
El Gaucho and add it to the scratchpad. Note
As you zoom in or out the search results in the
search pane are being adjusted
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Lets get the driving directions from the airport
to the hotel. Of cause we can show the segments
step by step
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and we have a special view optimized for
printing
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For dinner we go the Waterfront Seafood grill. So
lets look that up and add it again to the
scratch pad. Note We dont loose the first
search result.
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May be we want to have a little walk after dinner
and visit the Space Needle.
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And guess - we have a birds eye image of that too.
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The next day we have our EBC. So lets see where
Microsoft is.
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Here are the driving directions
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and here is the birds eye view.
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May be we want to stay the weekend in Las Vegas.
So lets look at this
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Have you seen this. We can even rotate the image
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And finally we sent the complete program to all
of the attendees.
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KML Converter
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Virtual Earth Mobile
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Virtual Earth Mobile
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Virtual Earth Mobile
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VE on a mobile in the wild
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Interactive SDK
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• Virtual Earth
• Street-Side

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• Location Enabled Outlook (LEO)

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• MSR MapCruncher

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Demo

• MSR MapCruncher

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Further Information

• General MapPoint Informationhttp//www.microsoft
  .com/mappoint
• Technical MapPoint Informationhttp//msdn.microso
  ft.com/mappoint
• MapPoint Europe 2004 Coveragehttp//www.microsoft
  .com/mappoint/2004/europe.mspx
• MapPoint 2004 Spatial Data COM Add-Inhttp//www.m
  icrosoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyIdADA44
  A9E-3EE0-4FD7-A923-C900C6C9D5B7displaylangen
• Hypercubed Coordinate Exchangehttp//www.hypercub
  ed.com/projects/coordex
• Request MapPoint Web Service Test Account
  https//mappoint-css.partners.extranet.microsoft.
  com/MwsSignup/Eval.aspx
• Download MapPoint Web Service SDK
  http//go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID23505
• MapPoint Web Service Coveragehttp//www.microsoft
  .com/mappoint/products/webservice/regional.mspx
• Windows Live Local powered by Virtual
  Earthhttp//local.live.com
• More information on Virtual Earth including great
  sampleshttp//www.viavirtualearth.com
• Virtual Earth SDK Interactive
  http//dev.live.com/virtualearth/sdk/ CHM
  http//go.microsoft.com/?linkid4932476
• MSR MapCruncher http//research.microsoft.com/ma
  pcruncher/
• Virtual Earth Street Site (Technology
  Preview)http//preview.local.live.com
• Birds Eye Touristhttp//www.birdseyetourist.com
  
• Arnauds Bloghttp//blogs.microsoft.fr/arnaudgs

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Further Information

• Programming MapPoint in .NET
• Paperback 372 pages
• Publisher O'Reilly Media, Inc. 1 edition
  (December 9, 2005)
• Language English
• ISBN 0596009062