Section A.1. Using the MapPoint Customer Services Site


A.1. Using the MapPoint Customer Services Site

You can upload custom points of interest data using the MapPoint Web Service Customer Services site (https://mappoint-css.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/cscV3/) web interface. The user interface for this functionality is available on the home page of the site under the data sources section shown in Figure A-1.

Figure A-1. Data management UI from the customer services site


Location data files that you upload to MapPoint Web Service must be in either Access XML file format or flat file format and must meet specific requirements. To find out more about the specific requirements, refer to the Formatting MapPoint Web Service Data Source Files topic on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mappointsdk/HTML/mpn35FormattingDataSources.asp?frame=true.


You can perform a maximum of 50 location data uploads within a 24-hour period. This restriction includes uploading new data as well as updating existing data. To upload your data using the UI, follow these steps:

  1. On the home page, scroll down to the data sources section for the environment that you want, and click Create.

  2. In the "Data source name" field, type a name for the new data source. The name you type is appended to the customer's name and the account ID assigned to you by MapPoint Web Service, which is displayed to the left of the text box.

  3. In the "Entity type" field, assign an entity type for the data source. The entities in a data source require an entity type, and all entities within the data source must be of the same type. The entity type is the category you want associated with your data, such as Stores, Distributors, or ATMs. The entity type can be anything you want as long as it is a valid XML name (which contains no spaces or reserved characters).

  4. Type the filename and path of the data file, or click Browse to locate the file on your computer.

  5. From the Geocoding level (matched method) drop-down list, choose a geocoding level. The geocoder works through the geocoding hierarchy in the order shown in the drop-down list (Street, PostCode, City, Subdivision, CountryRegion) seeking a match for each entity either below or at the level you select. If the latitude and longitude columns in the data source file are empty for any of the entities, they will be geocoded as part of the upload process. Sometimes the geocoder returns multiple results for an address. Select the "Reject ambiguous matches" checkbox to leave the latitude and longitude fields blank for any entity for which multiple matches are returned. Otherwise, the latitude and longitude coordinates for the first match are used.

  6. Click Create.

The MapPoint Customer Services site home page includes a section for recently uploaded data jobs. Refresh the page to see the status of your upload job. You can click on the "View details" link to see additional information about the job or to see whether the job has successfully completed, along with the number of entities that are successfully uploaded and the number of entities that failed to load.

Now that you know how to upload data using the Customer Services Site UI, let's look at how you can programmatically upload the data using the Customer Data Web Service .




Programming MapPoint in  .NET
Programming MapPoint in .NET
ISBN: 0596009062
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 136
Authors: Chandu Thota

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