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MapPoint is intended for business users but competes in the low-end geographic information system ("GIS") market. It includes all of the functionality of the most recent version of Streets and Trips, the consumer mapping software, at the time of development, as well as integration with Microsoft Office, data mapping from various sources including Microsoft Excel, and a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) interface allowing automation of the MapPoint environment. The MapPoint technology is used in *End-user desktop software: **MapPoint (for North American and Western European business users) **Microsoft Streets and Trips (for North American home users) **Microsoft AutoRoute (for Western European home and small business users) **Encarta encyclopedia (Atlas functionality) *Web-based services: **The Bing Maps website maps.bing.com **The Microsoft Virtual Earth development platform ***The Service using SOAP XML ***The control, an ActiveX control, which lets users make requests via JavaScript to an AJAX map object |