Expertise Needed   

Hi.  I am looking into mappoint to map locations of customers, both in the US 
and in Europe.  I have some questions, how often is Mappoint updated?  When 
is the new Europe version coming out?  What is the difference between 
purchasing a copy of mappoint off the shelf versus the mappoint web services? 
 

Thanks in advance for your expertise!

date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:08:01 -0700   author:   sundvl

RE: Expertise Needed   

Hi,

First of all differences between Mappoint CD and Mappoint web service (MWS):

CD - Pay a small fee (a few hundred dollars) to get an offline, static 
version of maps.  You basically run the application on your desktop and get 
access to what they give you out of the box.  

MWS - Requires a contract to go into production, moderate fees (think 
thousands), online, dynamically generated maps with more up-to-date data.  
Includes traffic data, special driving direction options, larger datasource 
set, and much more.  Free to try but you only have access to their staging 
environment.  Contact maplic@microsoft.com if interested in going commercial.

MWS + CD update frequency varies.  MWS used to be updated on a quarterly 
basis, hard to say what Microsoft's policy on this now that they're moving 
over to Virtual Earth (the newer beta online product to MWS).  CD product I'd 
guess once every year (since they release a new product per year).  

Hope that helps,
-- 
Infusion Development
http://www.infusion.com


"sundvl" wrote:

> Hi.  I am looking into mappoint to map locations of customers, both in the US 
> and in Europe.  I have some questions, how often is Mappoint updated?  When 
> is the new Europe version coming out?  What is the difference between 
> purchasing a copy of mappoint off the shelf versus the mappoint web services? 
>  
> 
> Thanks in advance for your expertise!

date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:47:01 -0700   author:   Derek Chan