Ted Roche wrote: > 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 :) >
Very cool, TR. I'd think you'd be heralded instead of ostracized, unless they were the 800 pound gorilla and had the marketing dollars to bad mouth you (successfully). > 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. > I can't say enough about Steve Bodnar's session at FF2K7 last year....he really "wow!" -ed me with his MapPoint demonstration. I instantly emailed customers right there in the room before his session was over, sharing my excitement with some clients. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] 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.
