Quick sanity check, I don't think the following is possible, is it?

We're importing (or linking) data programmatically into MapPoint and displaying it as pushpins.

Each location can be located by longitude,latitude; or street address.
Having both sets of fields in the input data, MapPoint locates using latitude, longitude (a logical choice). However, some of our locations do not have longitude,latitude coordinates. For these, MapPoint ignores the street address information and marks the pins as "Not Matched".
Can anyone think of a way that we can match these pushpins?
Yes we can loop through them, but once we've found them, we cannot move them - the Location property is read only.

Ideally we should be able to say "match using this method, if it isn't available, use this one...".
Alternatively we could loop through finding the unmatched pins, and re-match them, using a different method.

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I don't think this is possible, so I have two backup schemes which might not be ideal, but at least they will work:

1.) We import the data manually a row at a time. We won't be able to import data field data, but it might be acceptable to parse the required data fields and put them in the text balloon.

2.) We batch geo-locate all of the addresses in the data source (Excel as it happens), ahead of time.


Richard

Hi Richard,

I think I have less experiance in mappoint than you, so probably I can not help, but I dont understeand the prob.

Can you explain again in more 'simple English' ?

I'll try

We're importing data inot MapPoint as pushpins. We could locate these as addresses or longitude,latitude coords. We don't have longitude,latitude coords for all of the data points.
We'd like to match the data to longitude,latitude if we have it, otherwise the street address.
We'd like to do this programmatically. Loading the data in using the ImportData or LinkData methods results in a pushpin set which is effectively readonly - ie. although we can loop through and find the 'bad' pins, we can't move them to the right places.


Richard

Yes, I would recommend to geocode and fill in all the missing lat/lons in Excel beforehand.. so you would have an Excel button or menu item that says "Obtain Lat/Lon's" which would need to be done in Excel.

Eric

Yes that is my preferred solution at the moment - just checking I hadn't missed anything in the docs!


btw Eric, did you get the two emails I sent in the past few days?


Richard

yes, I am sorry, am trying to catch up.. was sick with flu. Daughter has been sick from Friday and still sick

Eric

That's fine - just checking that they hadn't been eaten by a spam filter or something

Hope the family gets well soon...


Richard