Hi everyone,

I have a strange problem with placecategories here.

I am using VBA (ecel 2010) and have a list of Airports (three letter IATA Codes). I want to determine longitude and latitude values of these airports. For that i use the FindPlaceResults Method which hands me a location object. I then check whether that Locationobject has the correct PlaceCategory.index if it has one at all. If it has i save the long/lat attributes (if not i check for the next result).

This worked very nicely in the NA version of mappoint. But when I tried it in the EU version, there was simply PlaceCategory=nothing in my resulting-location object even though if I search in the desktop application of Mappoint EU it seems to be categorized. I dont really know what the problem is here..

Sample code in VBA:


Dim oApp As MapPoint.Application
Dim oMap As MapPoint.Map
Dim oLoc As MapPoint.Location

Set oApp = New MapPoint.Application
With oApp
.Visible = True
.UserControl = True
End With
Set oMap = oApp.ActiveMap

Set oLoc = oMap.FindPlaceResults("TXL")(1) 'this is Tegel Airport Berlin
Debug.Print "Cat TXL: " & oLoc.PlaceCategory.Index
The object looks like this. PlaceCategory = nothing

http://www.koliweb.de/obj.png

http://www.koliweb.de/cat.pngBut if I check for "TXL" in the Mappoint application there seems to be a category for it..

edit: sorry for the pictures in German, 'Flughafen' = Airport, 'Falsch' = false

Just a parallel observation, but I've found the "Places" returned by these methods can vary in the information they report. In the North American edition, many of the places have full information (eg. street address) some don't. It also depends on the MapPoint edition - some lack most of the information, some have most of it filled out.


Richard

Hi,
we developed a mappoint-tool to check the "NearBy"-Places.
Just have a look: HelpFile: IC-NearByExport (http://wh-en.mappoint-tools.info/GA/scr/html/NearByPlaces/NearBy_Places.htm)

If you want to get the program for free, just register to become a BETA-Tester. (http://profit100.eu/become-a-beta-tester.html)

. . and if you are interested in "airports of the world" you can get the Excel-List (see attachment) and also the .ptm.

Kind regards
Manfred

Hi,
we developed a mappoint-tool to check the "NearBy"-Places.
Just have a look: HelpFile: IC-NearByExport (http://wh-en.mappoint-tools.info/GA/scr/html/NearByPlaces/NearBy_Places.htm)

If you want to get the program for free, just register to become a BETA-Tester. (http://profit100.eu/become-a-beta-tester.html)

. . and if you are interested in "airports of the world" you can get the Excel-List (see attachment) and also the .ptm.

Kind regards
Manfred

So placecategory works for the nearby search ? Ill have to try that..