>>>>Does anyone have experience of incorporating Geographical Positioning System software into a VFP environment? I know there is something called MapObjects LT2 which provides ActiveX controls. If anyone knows of any other products or has any advice they might feel would be useful, I would delighted to hear.
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>>>Haven't used it but had a brief look at http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/
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>>Thanks Al, I have asked for more information from the company. As usual these things seem to have demonstration downloads that use VisualBasic. I have never used VB. Always managed to use VFP to do my bidding!
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>>If anyone else has any direct experience of using a GPS system in a VFP environment I would still be keen to hear from them.
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>>Regards
>>Barry
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>Barry,
>I work with MapObjects 2 (full version). Before attempting to buy it I strongly suggest you to evaluate comparingly to other products such as Geoobjects from BlueMarble (as Al mentioned). I could never evaluate GeoObjects but their prices sound to be more appealing. MO is rather expensive.
>I don't know how much MO full and Light versions differ. When I last visited ESRI site they had VB,Delphi,C samples and only one VFP sample. There was one GPS data (NMEA data as txt) replaying sample (VB as I remember).
>No easy plugin in MO like in GeoObjects for GPS (though you could play-replay NMEA data with some coding in VFP).
>With respect to GeoObjects general features page it sounds to be easier than MO.
>Cetin

Cetin,

I have downloaded the BlueMarble demo stuff but not having VB on my system I cannot evaluate it in any real sense. MO Light sounds like it might do the trick but they do not have any evaluation software available at the moment. It costs about $1000 which is around the same as GeoObjects.

As you have GPS/VFP experience I may well be back to you once I get something up and running!

Thanks for the advice.

Barry.