>I'm working on what's basicly going to be a dispatching system...it's going to manage a fleet of drivers.
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>What I'd *like* to use is micrsoft mappoint to do this. Now I've found a way I can use OLE to get the milage and routing and all that kind of stuff....so I've figured out how to do it. My questions are more along the lines of licensing...
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>I know there is Microsoft Mappoint, and there is another edition that i Microsoft Mappoint Fleet Edition - and i'ts also my understanding that there is a Microsoft Mappoint web-service.
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>I guss what I'm trying to figure out is which of these I should actually be using and how much all this junk costs. I don't seem to have much luck finding out a clear answer to anything other than the cost of Microsoft Mappoint 2009 - the standard edition not the fleet one. Anyone have any clues here to point me in the right direction?
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>Thanks!

Looks like there isn't a Fleet Edition anymore and the WebService is now called Bing Maps
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/ Licensing is http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/licensing.aspx for the bin maps.