Authors: B. J. Holtgrewe, Jill T. Freeze
ISBN-13: 9780764516238, ISBN-10: 076451623X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: BK&CD-ROM
BJ Holtgrewe has been on the Microsoft MapPoint team from the start. As technical evangelist, he introduces new and potential customers to the product.
Jill T. Freeze is the author of many computer books.
MapPoint is a unique product designed to help business get a leg up on the competition by creating geographic analysis based on real demographic and statistical information. MapPoint For Dummies covers the essentials a new MapPoint user needs to know from how to handle simple mapping and plotting tasks to tying it into other Office tools and databases in order to analyze business trends and make informed decisions.
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Introduction MapPoint | 7 |
Ch. 1 | Presenting Microsoft MapPoint | 9 |
Ch. 2 | Exploring the MapPoint Universe | 21 |
Pt. II | Test Driving MapPoint | 37 |
Ch. 3 | Interpreting a MapPoint Map | 39 |
Ch. 4 | Locating Places on the Map | 51 |
Ch. 5 | Basic Driver's Ed: Route Planning | 71 |
Pt. III | Presenting and Analyzing Information with MapPoint | 99 |
Ch. 6 | Drawing with MapPoint | 101 |
Ch. 7 | Working with MapPoint Output | 121 |
Ch. 8 | Analyzing Data with MapPoint | 141 |
Ch. 9 | Using the Data Mapping Wizard | 161 |
Ch. 10 | Importing Data from SQL Server | 185 |
Pt. IV | Using MapPoint with Other Products | 205 |
Ch. 11 | MapPoint and Office 2000/XP | 207 |
Ch. 12 | Tracking Your Position with GPS | 217 |
Ch. 13 | Taking MapPoint on the Road with Pocket Streets | 225 |
Pt. V | Programming MapPoint | 237 |
Ch. 14 | Unleashing the Hidden Power of MapPoint | 239 |
Ch. 15 | (COM) into My World! | 249 |
Ch. 16 | Embedding MapPoint into Your Application | 261 |
Ch. 17 | More Embedding MapPoint into Your Application | 279 |
Ch. 18 | MapPoint and the World of Geographic Information Systems | 313 |
Pt. VI | The Part of Tens | 317 |
Ch. 19 | (Almost) Ten Ways to Maximize Your MapPoint Experience | 319 |
Ch. 20 | Ten Business Uses for MapPoint | 327 |
App. A | Installing MapPoint | 333 |
App. B: About the CDs | 339 | |
Index | 343 | |
Hungry Minds, Inc. End-User License Agreement | 363 |