Map Suite GIS Newsletter

This month we're proud to announce the launch of the official ThinkGeo Blog, a new website where you can get the latest insight on GIS and GPS tracking technologies, software development and ideas.

Each week at the ThinkGeo Blog, the staff at ThinkGeo will post original articles, tips and links that will inspire your GIS development and encourage new ideas and conversation. Customers and GIS enthusiasts alike are welcome to contribute to the discussion by leaving their own comments on the blog.

"The main focus of the ThinkGeo Blog will be to allow people within the ThinkGeo organization to talk about cool topics like GIS (Geographic Information Systems), programming and mapping technologies, to name a few," writes Clint Batman, President of ThinkGeo LLC. "In addition, we also hope that the blog will engage our customers on how to utilize our technologies to implement great solutions."

Together with the official Discussion Forums, the ThinkGeo Blog is another example of ThinkGeo's commitment to building a strong, customer-oriented GIS community.

Join in the discussion today at http://blog.thinkgeo.com, and don't forget to subscribe to our RSS feed.

Have you been looking for a way to add a professional visual style to your mapping application? Look no further than ThinkGeo's newly-released Map Suite Icon Library, now available in our online store.

Featuring over 5,000 expertly designed icons, with categories including people, places, vehicles, symbols, hazards and more, the Map Suite Icon Library is a complete collection of imagery that you can immediately use in your Map Suite-powered GIS application, or in any other commercial project or software solution you're developing.

Even better, each icon comes in five different sizes, with full transparency support. Additionally, each vehicle icon is pre-rendered in eight different colors, giving you instant variety that you can apply to your vehicle tracking operations or any other GIS project.

More information and sample images are available in the Map Suite Icon Library section of our website. And when you purchase the Icon Library at ThinkGeo's Online Store, you can download the complete set of icons and get started quickly — no more waiting for the postal carrier!

With the emergence of popular online mapping applications over the past few years, more businesses are seeing a need to build mapping and GIS functionality into their own custom applications. While online services like Google Maps & Virtual Earth work well in some cases, programmers often need more control over the map data, map rendering, GIS capabilities, security and overall architecture. That's where ThinkGeo comes in!

An informative white paper penned by Clint Batman, President of ThinkGeo LLC, will show you how ThinkGeo's Map Suite products can be used to build a scalable mapping application utilizing a web service, and how to consume the web service from a client application. Take a look at the article on our website — it's accompanied by downloadable sample code in C# for both the map web service and client application.

Did this month's tech tip help your GIS development? Let us know what you thought about the white paper today by leaving your comments at the new ThinkGeo Blog!

Try Map Suite Before You Buy

Now you can download free evaluation demos of our most popular products. They are fully-functional and contain no locked or inaccessible features. Map Suite version 2.39.0, with a host of new features, is now available!