| Re: Data Spatial Import
The spatial import tool is provided by Microsoft as a demo/sample. It often needs a little bit of work to get it to import many types of SHP file. Not helping matters, MapPoint's shape model is rather basic compared to ESRI and the shape file format. Eg. text will not scale properly and cannot be rotated in MapPoint.
There are much bigger problems though...
MapPoint's coverage of "other areas" (ie. Costa Rica in your case) is limited. Not just in what is included, but also how far you can zoom. You will not be able to zoom enough to see town streets!
I think you need a different solution.
Virtual Earth is one option, and this has good satellite coverage of San Jose. Unfortunately the coverage of the country is more limited and there's a similar zoom limitation - try zooming to find out.
Which area of Costa Rica are you working with? We hit similar problems but with online maps for the EcoMapCostaRica.com project, working in an area north east of Arenal. In the end I implemented my own MapServer server using public domain vector data, a satellite tile from the Smithsonian, and our own field-acquired data. MapServer can use Shape files "out of the box". It does have a steep learning curve though.
Richard |