MapPoint Web Service

Simplified Web Mapping

• Integrate maps, driving directions and proximity searches into your web application
• No more upgrading and installing maps. 
• Develop applications quickly with common developer tools using a standards-based programming model.
• Simple transaction-based pricing.  You pay for what you use.

Hosted Web Service

No more upgrading and installing maps.  Your website is using the latest Navteq street maps and driving data (road types, one way streets, etc).  Eliminate the cost of support for multiple versions of  software and data on hundreds of desktops.  A hosted service means Microsoft updates the data seamlessly.

Simple Transaction-Based Pricing

MapPoint Web Service is a hosted service model in which Microsoft hosts the MapPoint Web Service for our customers. Customers pay a Platform Access Fee and pay for Transactions which are requests to and responses from the Web Service.
 

Solution Scenarios

The ability to expose locations and driving directions via the MapPoint Web Service enables a broad array of business scenarios across a variety of industries.

• Provide Nearby Points of Interest
  Companies can quickly and easily integrate key points of interest (POI) associated with a specific location. For example, hotels or restaurants can provide the nearest location of all automatic teller machines (ATMs). Or a manufacturing company can list all gas stations within a short drive from a supply center. The MapPoint Web Service includes a database of more than 15,000,000 POI and customers can upload custom POI datasets as well.

• Search By Location Attributes
  Companies can specify up to 300 location attributes for use with MapPoint Web Service applications. For example, a retail outlet can allow website visitors to search for stores that are open early or stores that handle return items.

• Deliver Driving Directions
  Companies can offer driving directions with a map and step-by-step instructions. For example, an insurance company can easily provide driving directions from a customer home address to an insurance agent location.

Features/Components

The MapPoint Web Service includes the following features:

Finding Addresses. Find geocoded addresses in North America, South America and Europe. The street name can be combined with city, state, postal code or intersecting street to deliver a specific search result.

Finding Non-Addressable Places. Search for geographic entities such as cities, postal codes, states, counties, rivers, lakes, airports, landmarks, and other structures that do not have street addresses.

Reverse Geocoding. Access a list of geographic entities that are associated with a particular coordinate such as county or designated marketing area.

Finding Nearby Places. Quickly return a list of points of interest based on the proximity to a selected location. Searches can be performed for POI along a specified route. MapPoint Web Service includes a database of more than 15,000,000 listings and customers can upload custom POI datasets as well.

Customizing Locations. Easily geocode and storing of custom databases to be used with MapPoint Web Service applications is possible. Customers can include up to 300 searchable attributes for each record such as types of services and hours of operation.

Routing. Provide optimized driving directions with step-by-step instructions.

Worldwide City-to-City Routing. Build applications that will determine the location of places (such as cities or towns) worldwide and route between them. This capability includes routing across a waterway, a continent or country boundaries.

Polygons. Define and render a region on a map and then use this region to find relations to other polygons, point data sources, addresses, and specific geographic locations. Common uses of polygons include defining neighborhoods, delivery areas, cell phone coverage and territories. The MapPoint Web Service offers a polygon creation tool and several command line tools for converting existing ESRI, MapInfo, Autodesk, Intergraph and GML files to the MWS polygon file format. MapPoint Web Service also offers a COM Add-in for MapPoint 2004 which allows you to draw your own polygons and save them to the MapPoint Web Service polygon XML file format.

TETRAD is a Microsoft MapPoint Solution Provider

TETRAD Computer Applications has extensive experience developing GIS mapping solutions using Microsoft’s MapPoint 2004 in the PCensus for MapPoint product. With MapPoint Web Service, TETRAD can embed location and mapping features in applications, websites and services.

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