bryker
04-06-2004, 03:59 PM
I'm getting a lot of flak from my testers about zip codes, and I just want to make sure that I'm not lying to them. I'm coding in ASP.NET.
They want some way of displaying zip code boundaries to the user. I tell them that with the web service, this just is not available. It's not a MapStyle that I can allow them to choose.
There are work-arounds, like allowing them to place labeled points on the map. They really want the boundaries to display, however.
I mean, if I had a database of each zip code boundary's coordinates, sure, I could draw them on top of the MapPoint rendered image, using .NET's GDI+ (I already do this for other things), but this would be alarmingly slow and cludgy, I would think.
I'm not missing something else, am I? There's no way to show zip code boundaries, right?
Thanks.
They want some way of displaying zip code boundaries to the user. I tell them that with the web service, this just is not available. It's not a MapStyle that I can allow them to choose.
There are work-arounds, like allowing them to place labeled points on the map. They really want the boundaries to display, however.
I mean, if I had a database of each zip code boundary's coordinates, sure, I could draw them on top of the MapPoint rendered image, using .NET's GDI+ (I already do this for other things), but this would be alarmingly slow and cludgy, I would think.
I'm not missing something else, am I? There's no way to show zip code boundaries, right?
Thanks.