MapForums

Last week MapForums users crossed the 25,000 mark in terms of number of posts in the forum.

To see who has been the most active in the forums over the past months and previous years, go to Quick Links, and then Top Posters of the Month.

MapForums also hosts a popular Downloads section with a number of tools, map templates, icon sets, and utilities to help you get the most out of MapPoint. Access to the Downloads section is $19.95 for three months.

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Our most recent newsletter was published yesterday and it now archived online -
http://www.mp2kmag.com/update/mappoi...er/2009-03-24/

Highlights include another installment of our MapPoint / Excel VBA programming tutorials and the announcement of the new MapPoint Consultant and Products directories on MapForums.

You can view all the archived newsletters and subcribe on this page: http://www.mp2kmag.com/update/

Happy Mapping!

The MapPoint Team at Microsoft is conducting the first ever survey of customers to see what they want in future versions of MapPoint!

This is a good sign -- although there there have been several enhancements (especially the changes in the most recent version, MapPoint 2009) the product's functionality for users wanting to do business mapping has not changed much since MapPoint 2002.

I'm sure you have some thoughts - share them to help shape future MapPoint releases...

The MapForums community calendar lists upcoming webcasts and other events related to MapPoint and the Virtual Earth Platform in general.

Next week, Chris Pendleton will be presenting at the EUCI GIS Conference in San Antonio, TX.

In February, Geoffrey Emery will be talking about developing with Virtual Earth in an episode of geekSpeak via an MSDN webcast.

Registered MapForums members can post new events view the calendar. Register at MapForums.

The posts on MapForums.com appear in a number of different sections, and if you want to scan all the latest posts, it can be tedious starting from the home page of MapForums, clicking into each section, and scanning the posts.

A list of all the most recent posts does appear on the home page of MP2Kmag.com on the right sidebar, but this does not include information about which section it is from, who posted it, and the date.

A somewhat hidden feature on MapForums does...