MapPoint alternative

I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia, but
mainly the UK. This service costs me 4500/year (for 100,000 hits I think,
of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up the map
images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.

What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I were
allowed to keep the maps server side.Not really familiar with the service but I know that
Google and Yahoo have MAP APIs.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
I am actually using Yahoo's Geo APIs to get longitude and latitude of the US
address.

George

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>I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
>(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia,
>but mainly the UK. This service costs me 4500/year (for 100,000 hits I
>think, of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up
>the map images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.
>
What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I
were allowed to keep the maps server side.
>
>

And may not charge, depending on your business type. If mapping is core to
business, however, you will have to pay.

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Gregory A. Beamer
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Not really familiar with the service but I know that
Google and Yahoo have MAP APIs.
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/
>
I am actually using Yahoo's Geo APIs to get longitude and latitude of the
US address.
>
George
>
>
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Originally Posted by

>>I have been using MS MapPoint for a few years now to display icons
>>(potentially thousands of them) on Maps of the UK, France and Australia,
>>but mainly the UK. This service costs me 4500/year (for 100,000 hits I
>>think, of which I use very few). I am only using the service to serve up
>>the map images, from then I do all the icon plotting business server side.
>>
>What I want to know is, can anyone recommend any cheaper alternitives to
>MapPoint that would work for me? It would also be an imporvement if I
>were allowed to keep the maps server side.
>>
>>

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