It sounds like you're looking for suggestions, so here's another one :)

We use SylvanMaps OCX, and have been relatively pleased with it. We currently have it in a VB program -- I've never tried to use it from VFP (we were still in 2.6 when we first implemented it). It's royalty-free, which is a plus. You can check them out at www.sylvanmaps.com. They have an evaluation copy you can download. It looks like they have some newer versions than what we are using.

>Jay,
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>>Doug --
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>> For an avocational interest in ancient Greek history, I recently purchased a mapping program from a group down under. It's available as shareware, but much less expensive than commercial packages, and I suspect that they would do volume discounting (a shareware author's dream!). Nice system developed in Delphi.
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>> There's no real programming capability, per se. However, the ability to create layers of maps and selectively show them adds an interactive ability. I don't think it exposes an OLE interface. You'd work with it as a separate application, and generate data files for it to use.
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>> If you're interested, I can give you contact info (that's all on my home system).
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>> Jay
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>Yes! I'd be delighted if you'd send me the information. We've discussed the whole layering approach and that is of interest to us. Perhaps we can convince the developers to do a COM version. <g>