We're trying to import a file from a C# dll into MapPoint, and can get it to read the data just fine, but we are having trouble with MapPoint not recognizing all of the addresses. Currently, our file contains not only address information, but latitude and longitude as well (under the headers of Lat and Lon). Is there any options we can set, or any methods we can use that will allow us to tell MapPoint to use the latitude and Longitude in place of, or in addition to the address? So far I've not found any, but I could be looking in the wrong place anyway. Thanks.
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You should be able to locate Location objects by Latitude, Longitude coordinates, and to locate input data (eg. from Excel or Access) using Longitude,Latitude coordinates. How are you actually creating the data in MapPoint?
Richard
winwaed
2010-10-20 15:49:06
Data gets imported from an excel spreadsheet into mappoint. It has Latitude and Longitude columns.
Tom
2010-10-27 23:44:26
Yes when you use the Data Import Wizard it has to be one or the other. For Excel spreadsheets, you could import the data as two datasets? Alternative you could write an addin or utility which 'manually' imported the data points. This could easily choose the location method as appropriate but would not be able to input data fields (just name, text, pushpin symbol). Another option would be to geocode the address data so all of your Excel data rows have coordinates.
winwaed
2010-10-28 00:17:22