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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...

A number of discussions about Pushpins have recently appeared on MapForums - the community of Virtual Earth and MapPoint users and developers.

First, Eric Frost notes three appoaches to getting the old MapPoint pushpins into MapPoint 2009.

Richard Marsden has been staying on top of the issue in discussion on his blog on MapForums.

This new "How To" posting on MapForums shows how to download, convert, and import Mapki icon images sets into MapPoint....