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
"JosephByrns" <josephbyrns@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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.
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com
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"George Ter-Saakov" <gt-nsp@.cardone.com> wrote in message
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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
>
> "JosephByrns" <josephbyrns@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OCkHZznAHHA.4348@.TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>