| December 7, 2003: | Lombardi Discusses the Highlights of MapPoint 2004 "The basemap, demographic, and point-of-interest data in the product is all new. A mapping tool is only as good as the data that ships with it. MapPoint 2004 includes the latest data available from our data suppliers." |
| October 29, 2003: | MapPoint in MSDN Magazine The December issue of MSDN magazine includes a brief interview with Steve Lombardi and another article providing an overview of Microsoft's public XML web services including MapPoint |
| October 22, 2003: | Hypercubed Announces Coordinate Exchange 0.6 Enhancements include better turn-by-turn route data extraction, the ability to import MapInfo data points, and improved GPS communication |
| October 16, 2003: | GPS NavStar Version 3.0.0 Released Mobile GPS Online announced the release of GPS NavStar version 3.0.0. GPS NavStar is an advanced GPS vehicle navigation system which uses MapPoint |
| October 13, 2003: | SwissCom Launches 'HotSpot Locator' with MapPoint Building on the .NET application server and development platform, Swisscom recently introduced its HotSpot Locator, an application that quickly finds the nearest public wireless LAN hotspot and displays its location using the MapPoint Web Service. |
| October 12, 2003: | SARS App To Be Extended With MapPoint The Best In Show - Enterprise application at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans is being extended with Microsoft MapPoint, to provide enhanced geographic reporting. |
| October 11, 2003: | MapLinX Pro Advanced Query Tools Now Available Linxoft Solutions Inc., creator of MapLinX Pro, a MapPoint Add-in tool for interactive query management and visualization of enterprise data from different data sources, recently announced the release of the software for commerical use. |
| September 18, 2003: | Microsoft Announces MapPoint 2004 Microsoft Corp. recently announced the availability of Microsoft MapPoint 2004 North America and Microsoft MapPoint 2004 European Edition, the latest versions of its business mapping and location-based data visualization software |
| September 3, 2003: | Microsoft MapPoint Web Service Notice A notification was recently sent out to MapPoint web service customers regarding an enhancement to their load balancing system. |
| August 28, 2003: | AMD Hosts Virtual Geocaching Contest AMD recently announced the High-Tech Treasure Hunt, a virtual GeoCaching contest where participants answer clues to find 64 global locations which have significance to technology, 64-bit computing or AMD. |
| August 28, 2003: | MSN Premium Service for Broadband MSN's recently announced premium service for broadband subscribers will feature MapPoint traffic reports. Beta testing is slated to begin next week with thousands of customers. |
| August 20, 2003: | Web Services for Mobile Phones Wireless carriers currently offer services that allow information to be "pushed" to your phone or accessed from your phone such as weather, stock quotes, news, traffic, and sports updates. |
| August 20, 2003: | MapPoint 2004 Evaluation Edition Sign up to register for notification of the MapPoint® 2004 Evaluation Edition consumer launch. |
| August 20, 2003: | Move Over MapPoint "In June, DeLorme sold nearly $1.2 million in mapping software and equipment, equaling Microsoft, which had dominated the market as it dominates most of the software markets it enters." |
| August 11, 2003: | MP2Kmag Newsletter Now On-line The latest MP2K Newsletter is now available on-line. Topics include MapPoint 2004 availability, an interview with Rik Temmink, and FCCJ teaches MapPoint. Subscribe by sending an e-mail here. |
| August 10, 2003: | Web Services Enter the Mainstream Because Web services allow different systems to talk to each other, making decisions and transactions based solely on machine communication, humans must be smarter than the machines. In short, we must know when to interfere. |
| July 23, 2003: | MapPoint Apps in Web Mapping Contest MapPoint Web Services applications took 1st and 2nd place in the Miscellaneous category in Direction Magazine's recent Web Mapping Contest. |
| June 17, 2003: | Microsoft’s Kashmir Map Prompts Online Confrontation From the Daily Times: "Certain Indian extremists in the United States have launched a campaign to protest against an alleged error in India’s map published in the Microsoft MapPoint 2002 software." |
| June 16, 2003: | Manifold 5.5 Update Includes Support for MapPoint 2002 If Microsoft MapPoint is installed on the same computer as Manifold System, Manifold can use the MapPoint geocoding engine to provide geocoding services to Manifold. |
| June 12, 2003: | Outtask Integrates MapPoint Web Service By integrating maps, driving directions, distance calculators and proximity searching capabilities, Cliqbook simplifies logistics for global travelers preparing for their next business trip. |
| June 6, 2003: | Map-In-A-Box for ESRI ArcGIS Users Map-In-A-Box offers cost-effective street data, geocoding and drive-time creation for ESRI ArcGIS users. |
| June 2, 2003: | SEDONA Corporation Releases Intarsia V4.1 Intarsia v4.1, a CRM application, features built-in analytical capabilities as well as support for Microsoft's SQL Server database and Microsoft's MapPoint office mapping and data visualization application platform. |
| June 2, 2003: | Universal Alphanumeric Postal Code Proposed With backing from Microsoft Corp., a Toronto company's dream of a universal addressing system is taking a step closer to reality. |
| May 29, 2003: | FlyteComm Announces FlyteTrax II The next generation browser-based flight tracking and weather display system from Flytecomm utilitzes Microsoft's MapPoint technology and offers nine detailed map options that continuously update aircraft position and flight status. |
| May 28, 2003: | Mobile GPS Online Releases GPSTrackP Mobile GPS Online recently released GPSTrackP, a vehicle tracking and management system that combines the low-cost passive data transfer of traditional tachograph-based systems with the tracking capability of GSM-based real-time tracking systems. |
| May 16, 2003: | MapPoint Web Services and the Smarter Web The web service version of MapPoint is one of many new technologies being incorporated into today's "High-IQ" web sites. |
| May 5, 2003: | MapPoint 2004 Beta We have heard reports that there exist beta builds of the next versions of MapPoint -- and they're called MapPoint 2004! |
| April 28, 2003: | UK Retailer Combats Credit Card Fraud With MapPoint Marks & Spencer, an UK-based retailer, is using MapPoint Web Services to detect and thwart credit card fraud by using drive time analysis. |
| April 18, 2003: | MP2Kmag Newsletter Published The latest MP2K Newsletter is now available on-line. Topics include Extending the ActiveX Control, Iraq War Maps, a SARS map, and much more. Subscribe by sending an e-mail here. |
| April 14, 2003: | AGI Conference at GeoSolutions 2003 Rik Temmink, EMEA Group Business Development Manager - Microsoft MapPoint of Microsoft will speak on day two at the upcoming AGI Conference in London. |
| April 11, 2003: | Wireless Poised to Explode By and large, we remain tethered — to our cable modems, DSL lines, wireline phones. But that will change in a big way, say experts. |
| April 8, 2003: | MapPoint Loses .NET From its Name As first reported by Directions Magazine last month and covered here in our newsletter, MapPoint .NET has been re-named MapPoint Web Services. |
| March 26, 2003: | Mobile Location-Based Services - Part 1 Directions Magazine recently published on article written by Steve Lombardi about his experience and past barriers to wide-spread of location-based services. |
| March 21, 2003: | Bill Gates Keynote Speaker at Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference Held in conjunction with CTIA Wireless 2003, the Microsoft Mobility Developer Conference featured SmartPhone and MapPoint Web Service technology. |
| March 19, 2003: | Mobile GPS Online Releases New NavStar Release Mobile GPS Online, a mobile GPS products and services firm located in Ottawa, Ontario recently announced the release of Laptop NavStar version 2.5.0. |
| March 18, 2003: | Pocket Streets Conversion Tool Made Available PSConvert is free allows you to "downgrade" into Pocket Streets 2002 and 2003 maps into Pocket Streets 2001 format. |
| March 17, 2003: | MapLinX Pro Beta Released Linxoft Solutions Inc., creator of MapLinX Pro™, a MapPoint Add-in tool for interactive query management and visualization of enterprise data from multiple databases, released the beta version of the software. |
| March 16, 2003: | SRC Names Mapping Analytics Partner of the Year SRC named Mapping Analytics its North American partner of the year for 2002. SRC recognized Mapping Analytics for its outstanding sales achievements as well as its creativity for building unique applications with SRC technology. |
| March 15, 2003: | MapPoint .NET Announcements at CTIA Microsoft's MapPoint Business Unit plans to make announcements regarding the MapPoint .NET Web Service at CTIA Wireless 2003 this week in New Orleans. |
| March 11, 2003: | Office 2003 Beta 2 May Break MapPoint 2002 Be forewarned, installing beta 2 of Office 2003 may conflict with MapPoint 2002 according to a ZDNet reviewer's experience. |
| March 10, 2003: | MapPoint Large-Format Printing Mattys Consulting recently announced a large-format printing service catering to the MapPoint community. |
| February 26, 2003: | Two MapPoint .NET E-books Published Siddharth Sharangpani' e-book is entitled "Providing GIS support to your applications using MapPoint .NET" and Costas Hadjisotiriou's is "Wireless MapPoint.NET services". Both are available for purchase and download on Amazon. |
| February 25, 2003: | Intrado Teams With Microsoft Intrado has formed an alliance with the Microsoft MapPoint Business Unit to develop and market services that integrate maps, driving directions and other location intelligence into mobile applications for business and consumer users. |
| February 14, 2003: | MapPoint Featured in NASA Report A top news item on NASA's Columbia web site includes a series of MapPoint maps depicting the shuttle's trajectory during re-entry. |
| February 5, 2003: | Satellite Imagery of Shuttle Debris Area Space Imaging's IKONOS Satellite captures debris area in Nacogdoches, Texas minutes after shuttle tumbles to earth.  |
| November 23, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Version 3.0 An article on Advisor encourages readers to "download the MapPoint .NET software development kit (SDK) and access the MapPoint .NET Web service to add maps, location finding, and routing to an application." |
| November 19, 2002: | MapPoint Mentioned in Gate's Comdex Address A solution for Kinko's including MapPoint .NET technology was recently featured in Bill Gate's far-ranging Comdex fall keynote address. Gates was joined onstage by Gary Kusin, president and CEO of Kinko's to announce the new service. |
| November 11, 2002: | MS Selects AGS Data To Power MapPoint Data Service Applied Geographic Solutions, Inc. (AGS) is proud to announce an agreement that will enable Microsoft Corporation to distribute AGS’s market leading demographic and consumer marketing data through Microsoft’s Excel 11 spreadsheet application. |
| October 29, 2002: | MapPoint .NET V3 to be released soon According to the MapPoint .NET newsgroup, the public release of MapPoint .NET version 3.0 is expected in the first week of November. A preview of the feature list was recently made available to MP2KMag. |
| October 22, 2002: | Microsoft Announces Intention to Acquire Vicinity Microsoft will fold Vicinity into the MapPoint Business Unit in a deal valued at $96 million - a 33% to 49% premium to Vicinity's recent market valuations. The merger is expected to be completed before March 2003. |
| October 14, 2002: | Mobile GPS Online Releases NavStar 2002 Mobile GPS Online, a mobile GPS products and services firm located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, has released an Advanced GPS Vehicle Navigation System based on Microsoft MapPoint Technology – NavStar 2002. |
| October 10, 2002: | Online mapmakers: Popular, prolific, not perfect A recent article in USA Today reviews several on-line mapping sites including MSN MapPoint, MapBlast, MapQuest, and Yahoo! Maps. |
| October 9, 2002: | Java Sample Application for MapPoint .NET Developers building Location based applications with the Java programming language now have a feature rich MapPoint .NET sample application to get them started. |
| October 1, 2002: | Mapping Solutions releases Map-In-A-Box The new Map-In-A-Box product aims to make desktop mapping more user-friendly and productive by providing MapPoint functionality within the MapInfo Professional interface. |
| September 30, 2002: | Epiphany helps Microsoft shine .Net light Microsoft and CRM software company Epiphany aim to show how open Web services standards can lead to fruitful collaboration. |
| September 26, 2002: | MapPoint Feature Available On-line in PDF format A MapPoint supplement recently appeared in a European GIS magazine featuring tutorials, partner solutions, and a clear explanation of MapPoint and MapPoint .NET strategy. |
| September 18, 2002: | Microsoft and AT&T Unveil Mobile Map Services The two companies aim to deliver location-based services (LBS) such as driving directions, locations of other users and business contacts, and more. |
| August 26, 2002: | Changes in MapPoint 2003 EULA Microsoft recently sent a letter to registered MapPoint Partners regarding a clause that will appear in the MapPoint 2003 EULA affecting fleet management and vehicle tracking applications. |
| August 25, 2002: | Steve Lombardi on the Microsoft/AT&T Alliance An interview was recently published with Steve Lombardi, technical product manager of the Microsoft MapPoint Business Unit about the Microsoft/AT&T Alliance |
| July 31, 2002: | Microsoft, AT&T Announce Wireless Alliance Microsoft and communications giant AT&T announced a strategic alliance that includes MapPoint .NET mapping and location services and the .NET Compact Framework. |
| July 18, 2002: | MapPoint Forum Evolution MP2K is in the process of testing a new discussion forum. Among the new features are e-mail notification, statistics, private messages, and much more. |
| July 11, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Sample Application The MapPoint .NET sample application for devices allows the user to retrieve interactive maps, driving directions, and to find points of interest such as hotels or service stations on their Pocket PC. |
| June 12, 2002: | MSN MapPoint Upgrades The update adds support for European address matching, new map content (i.e. the same maps as MapPoint 2002, not 2001 as before), improved usability, route highlighting, turn by turn route maps, and more. |
| June 10, 2002: | Dollar Does MapPoint .NET Dollar Rent A Car implemented MapPoint .NET to power the location finder on their website |
| May 28, 2002: | Magellan Ingenierie announces TourSolver Last week, Magellan Ingenierie announced TourSolver, a product developed in exclusivity for Microsoft MapPoint 2002 in co-operation with Navigation Technologies |
| May 8, 2002: | Interview with Michael Graff Directions Magazine recently published an interview with Michael Graff, General Manager of the MapPoint Group. |
| April 22, 2002: | Microsoft .NET Best Awards Nearly half a million dollars in cash and prizes is being awarded in the .NET Best Awards, but time is running out. |
| April 18, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Newsgroup Opened A second MapPoint newsgroup was opened yesterday to focus on MapPoint .NET support. |
| April 12, 2002: | Store Locator Demo Microsoft posted a store Locator demo for Fourth Coffee, a ficticious coffee retailer. |
| April 5, 2002: | Microsoft President/COO to Step Down Rick Belluzzo, who was named to the post just over a year ago, will be leaving Microsoft as part of a broader reorganization. How does this effect Microsoft's Geography Team? |
| April 5, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Evaluation Accounts Microsoft recently began accepting requests for MapPoint .NET evaluation accounts. |
| March 28, 2002: | Review of MapPoint European Edition GeoInformatic's writes "With Microsoft's MapPoint, mapping and GIS-functionality will come closer to a wider audience of potential map users. Microsoft aims at real estate agents, business managers, sales managers, and business travellers." |
| March 20, 2002: | MapPoint discussed on MapInfo-L MapPoint 2002 was recently the topic of a popular thread on the MapInfo-L list hosted by Directions Magazine and moderated by Bill Thoen |
| February 18, 2002: | Using MapPoint With Visual Basic .NET An article on automating MapPoint in VB .NET appeared recently in the KnowledgeBase |
| February 4, 2002: | MapPoint Geography Challenged By Indian Group An Indian activist group is developing a petition to change the representation of areas currently designated as disputed. |
| February 3, 2002: | Tech Ed Productivity Awards The MapPoint Team asked us to tell you about the upcoming Tech Ed Business Productivity Awards, MapPoint as an Office product is of course eligible and they are hoping to see a MapPoint solution featured, there are many categories. |
| January 30, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Beta Announced Microsoft is now accepting applications to participate in their MapPoint .NET beta program |
| January 25, 2002: | MSN MapPoint Launched Yesterday, Microsoft launched MSN MapPoint, clearly positioned as an alternative to AOL's MapQuest.com site |
| January 23, 2002: | New MapPoint Evangelist? Sources tell us Steve Lombardi will be replacing B.J. Holtgrewe as the MapPoint Evanglist |
| January 21, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Defined, Beta Program Announced Microsoft's MapPoint .NET site has been launched. MapPoint .NET is defined as "a SOAP programmable web service developed and hosted by Microsoft." |
| January 17, 2002: | MapPoint .NET Partner Meeting Held It has been reported that over 100 people attended a partner conference yesterday showcasing MapPoint .NET. |
| December 10, 2001: | MapPoint 2002 Find Sample There is a new code sample on MSDN that illustrates how to use the Microsoft MapPoint 2002 ActiveX Control and VB to replicate the find address, find place/data, and find latitude/longitude functionality of the stand-alone MapPoint 2002 application. |
| December 6, 2001: | Hackers Leverage MapPoint Functionality I think it's safe to say you won't see this reported on Microsoft's press page for MapPoint. The myriad uses people have found for MapPoint continues to astound. |
| November 28, 2001: | A report and some images from New York The new editor of Directions Magazine (which graciously hosts our community site) has published a first-hand account of the New York tragedy. |
| November 1, 2001: | Spatial Data Importer Article on MSDN The article explaining the spatial data importer developer sample has been spotted on MSDN. |
| October 26, 2001: | MapPoint Europe Available in the U.S. MapPoint Europe is now available through Microsoft for order in the U.S. |
| September 11, 2001: | Review of MapPoint 2002 European Edition Author says it should be called AutoRoute 2002 Plus Plus Plus |
| September 6, 2001: | Microsoft MapPoint Alliance Program Launched Besides being free, the program also has less legal requirements than the certified partner program |
| August 27, 2001: | PocketStreets Update Released Adds support for GPS and Outlook integration. |
| August 11, 2001: | MapPoint on MSDN MapPoint has been added to the MSDN library and includes comprehensive documentation and support for MapPoint developers. |
| April 23, 2001: | Business Insight With MapPoint 2002 Location-based information can be turned into business insight with Microsoft MapPoint 2002 |
| March 22, 2001: | Industry Press Releases New version of MapPoint2002 revolutionizes business analysis |
Last updated December 8, 2003