Hello,

Looking for an easy way to get the latitude and longitude from pushpins I've placed in MapPoint. Previously I've been doing it manually by getting the lat & long from the Location sensor and putting the values in the pushpin balloon like so:

1,-80.000,40.000,0
.
.
etc

Kind of gets annoying when having to do a few dozen of them. Does anyone have any ideas how to do this any easier? Preferably I'd like to be able to just click to add a pushpin, and have the lat & long displayed in the name in the proper format. Thanks!

search these forums, there are many posts

Been through a lot of posts. Maybe I'm not searching for the right thing...

Article 13 has some VB code, the discussion area for this article has the code ported to a few different languages.

Also there's a free utility in one of the first newsletters called pinsfile which can accomplish this.. finally the Pushpin Tool and MapLinx Pro both have this functionality.

Eric

This makes it so when the user clicks on the map with BOTH mouse buttons at the same time, a pushpin is created with the latitude and longitude as it's name. You need Gilles Kohl's code for getting the lat and lon also, you can get it here: http://www.mp2kmag.com/a13--kohl.ext....mappoint.html

Code:

    Private Sub objMap_BeforeClick(ByVal Button As Long, ByVal Shift As Long, ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, Cancel As Boolean)
    If Button = 3 Then
       Dim pinLat As Double
       Dim pinLon As Double
       Dim pinLoc As Mappoint.Location
       Set pinLoc = objMap.XYToLocation(X, Y)
       CalcPos MapApp.ActiveMap, pinLoc, pinLat, pinLon
       objMap.AddPushpin(pinLoc, pinLon & pinLat).BalloonState = geoDisplayName
       pinLoc.Goto
       Cancel = True
    End If
  End Sub

Thanks Eric, pinsfile was exactly what I needed.