MapPoint alternative

[JosephByrns]

I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia, but
mainly the UK. This service costs me £4500/year (for 100,000 hits I think,
of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up the map
images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.

What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I were
allowed to keep the maps server side.

 

[George Ter-Saakov]

Not really familiar with the service but I know that
Google and Yahoo have MAP APIs.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/

I am actually using Yahoo's Geo APIs to get longitude and latitude of the US
address.

George

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

And may not charge, depending on your business type. If mapping is core to
business, however, you will have to pay.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com

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