Gilles,
Post by Gilles Kohl [MVP]I'm afraid not - why would you need this?
Thanks for responding. I'm developing an Access database for my brother's
roofing company. The roofers in the field have Thomas Guide books in their
trucks (Thomas Guide is only offered in a few regions of the US, but they do
have CA East Bay book, our region of interest). To save time and minimize
confusion (not everyone speaks the same langauge in the company), the office
manager radios the Thomas Guide grid. I want to automate the process in the
office by printing the Thomas grid on the WorkOrder.
Thomas does license an ActiveX control that would solve this problem
technically, but the license fee is somthing like $700 sign-up plus $800 per
year, which exceeds the cost/benefit ratio for this feature. I thought
perhaps someone had created a Mappoint to Thomas Guide conversion.
Thomas Guide also includes a companion CD with each map book.
Unfortunately, the CD must remain in the CD drive, and it will not integrate
directly with Access or other applications, but this is probably our best
alternative. Copy the address from Access to the clip board, Paste the
address to Thomas, then enter the page/grid to the Access WorkOrder.
I'm guessing Mappoint has sufficient power programmatically to generate
Thomas grid information if someone took the time to enter all the Thomas
page/grid coordinate information into some sort of database, but I lack the
time to do that unless creating a grid overlay in Mappoint is extremely
easy.
Any other ideas? I'm assuming Mappoint does not have a companion book for
the field similar to Thomas Guide.
Best,
Christopher