Maps DDE and Mappoint with VFP 1

[wbstrider]

Using VFP6 and Street Wizard mapping software. User clicks button in VFP and Street Wizard opens to the address on map. Using DDE requests in VFP I am able to get lat/lon of customers, show delivery routes etc. When finished the user clicks a stoplight and returns to VFP program.

The problem is Street Wizard maps are over 10 years old. Can anyone point me to the forum or area to see if Mappoint can display my routed stops/ customers/ return lat/lon of customers and more? (New tax laws require I use correct county for tax rates of customers.)

Using DDE requests thru VFP is the greatest. I've enjoyed it. But I see the end. I must move on.

Thanks for any assistance... Keeping VFP alive...
Craigsboyd's FAQ's were a help.

One Code to rule them all, One code to bind them.

 

[DSummZZZ]

Try these in the FAQ's:

Microsoft's Mappoint - Create a Datamap
faq184-3886

How to create a VFP DLL to use Mapquest in a VFP application.
faq184-4666

-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[wbstrider]

Thanks DSumm.. I have seen both of these. I guess my question was not worded right. Seeing the map is not good enough. Can I retrieve the lat/lon from mappoint? This is now a crucial step. My users currently only need to click on the correct location and the program closes and returns the lat/lon behind the scenes in code.

VFP controls everything in our company. I'll purchase mappoint if it will do the job.

Thanks for the input.

One Code to rule them all, One code to bind them.

 

[DSummZZZ]

I haven't personally used mappoint. I'm not sure what it offers.
The lat/long I know is in the URL when using Mapquest though. Maybe mappoint has something similar?
It could be buried in a variable in the code. You may be ble to parse it out.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[craigsboyd]

wbstrider,

Yes, Mappoint can give you the longitude and latitude of a location (I just returned from an MSDN conference where they, among other things, did a run through on the Mappoint Webservice... it also can show the longitude and latitude of a given location).

I've used Mappoint in a number of VFP applications... it works good. One of the things that I was required to do before I used it with VFP was to evaluate it and about 6 other mapping programs. I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that Mappoint is the best of the bunch and the object model makes it fairly easy to integrate with a VFP application...not much different from automating Word or Excel.

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