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Hi, I'm using mappoint (Europe, in spanish) from VB 6, trying the following code:

mp1 is a mappoint control in the form

I'm looping through the waypoints and saving them in a table. Later, I read those names and create a route in the map, with this code:

The problem is: The user enters a place in the route planner, for example "Le Havre", and finds "Le Havre, Alta Normandía, Francia". Now he adds it to the route, and in the route it looks "El Havre", which is what the first loop above reads in mp1.ActiveMap.ActiveRoute.Waypoints.Item(l).Name and saves to the database. When the second loop above reads the database, mp1.ActiveMap.FindPlaceResults("El Havre").Item(1) can't find the place the user entered the first time. It finds "El Haméré" instead.
Can anyone please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

The problem is that you're providing to little information to the FindPlaceResults method, I mean, you're only giving it the name of the place and, in this case, that is not enough to get a direct hit to the correct location you're looking for. As you explained in your previous post, the user is actually adding "Le Havre, Alta Normandía, Francia" but the waypoint is saved only as "Le Havre"; without the country and region information the FindPlaceResults will have trouble to give you what you want.

Thanks for your reply.
What I'm passing to FindPlaceResults is what I get from the route. I mean, the user adds a place to the route using the search, and chooses "le Havre...". I (my VB code) still know nothing, cause it's done inside the MapPoint control. When the user has added all the points and calculates the route, I catch the event and loop through the waypoints to save them into my database. In that loop, I don't find "Le Havre..." (the full name) but "El Havre" (short, and translated to spanish).
I need a way to find the exact names of the places the user entered in the route, to save them in my DB and be able to find them later.
It would be even better if the places had an unique numeric code, but I don't they the have.
Sorry for my bad english, and thanks again for helping.

José C.

When you save the stops on the route, you can also save their longitude and latitude. (Search this site and you will find a good way to do this.) Then when you want to create the route on the map, you can use the following code:

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Set objLocation = GetLocation(recordset!Latitude, recordset!Longitude)
Set objPin=objMap.AddPushPin(objLocation,recordset!Nam e)
Set objWayPoint=objMap.ActiveRoute.Waypoints.Add(objPi n)

Thanks, found it and now it works fine.

José C.