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- The Poor Man's Way to Mapping with Visual Basic
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- Have you ever wanted to do mapping in Visual Basic but couldn't
- afford the thousands of dollars it costs for top-of-shelf
- Geographic Information Systems? Well here is your answer. By
- trade I am a Market Analyst. My job requires me to analyze and
- present data. I was tired of the old tables and bar graphs and
- spent to much time filling in states in paint programs. So I
- set out to create a fast and effective way to make a thematic
- map of the continental United States. This is not a VBX or DLL, just
- simple and effective code.
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- So how can you take advantage of my work? Well, there are two approaches.
- Both require sending me $19.00 to the address below. By registering the
- code module with me I will send you all of the code. You can drop the form,
- with the coordinated map into your program and simply make a one line function
- call to it for each state to color, or you can look at the detailed and
- documented code to discover how I accomplished this feature. I suggest
- the latter,because this ability offers you several opportunities, not
- just mapping.
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- Whats next? If you look at the sample program you will notice that California,
- New York and Washington state have been hotspotted. This means that by moving
- the mouse over the state you know which state you are over. To try this, move
- the mouse over one of these states and see its state abbreviation appear in the
- bottom right corner. Once each state is coordined off, I am working on detail
- maps of each state with county information. So in the future, the user will
- be able to click a state and see even more detail. I included this code so
- if you don't want to wait for me you can do it yourself, or maybe you have a
- better approach and I will send you $19.
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- Send $19.00 US Dollars in Check or Money Order to:
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- Educational & Business Systems
- 957 Johnson Street
- Elmira, NY 14901
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- CIS 71003,1670
- E-Mail: mikepark@ix.netcom.com
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