On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Rick Schummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The licensing for MapPoint is a bit expensive if you have lots of people > using the functionality, > but the COM object is easy to work with and works well with VFP, especially > for routing. I have a > client using Street Wizard in his vertical market app and it works well and > does routing too. In addition to the great suggestions Rick makes, there's a whole industry of mapping or GIS software that can be integrated into VFP via COM. Back in 1998 at Blackstone, I used a COM / ActiveX plugin from Blue Marble Geographics (http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/) to create street level maps of Hartford, Connecticut for police log data analysis, written up here: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/05/crimesoft.idg/ Our solution was an order of magnitude less expensive than the other contestants in the DOJ contest. And it worked. Two features the other competitors couldn't claim. Needless to say, we were ostracized :) Depending on your specific needs, if you want to use your own routing software and have the patience to download and integrate your own mapping data (TIGER data is available at no cost, just a lot of labor to get it into the forms you want), you can do this. If you'd rather feed addresses in sequence into MapPoint and let its routing algorithm (not a bad one) work out the routes, that's also a legitimate option. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
