Thursday, July 30. 2009

Microsoft Offers SQL Server "Add-in" for MapPoint

Microsoft PR just let us know that Microsoft released a free SQL Server add-in for MapPoint. It does what you'd think: "Customers using the MapPoint add-in for SQL Server can visualize and manipulate data directly on a MapPoint map."

Chris Pendleton (who writes the now Bing Maps blog, at this new address) provides details:

The add-on solution is NOT web-based. But it is inexpensive. SQL Server 2008 Express is free, the add-on is free and desktop MapPoint is $300. Thus "you get the power of some hardcore data visualization with offline capabilities" for a few hundred dollars.

MapIt (announced recently) is for the enterprise and is NOT an offline solution (and costs way more, $4500).

He also notes, but does not answer this question: "…what in the world has taken us so long to be these two together?"

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 12:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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For organizations that already have a large base of MapPoint users, this will really open up some possibilities! However, I wish they would have released the add-in as a "developer sample" with code so people could take advantage of the guts underneath in custom applications.
Eric

#1 Eric Frost (Link) on 2009-07-31 08:54 (Reply)

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