What it says in the header: are there any freeware or cheap alternatives to MapPoint?
Google Earth.
There's nothing free out there.
Yeah, Google Earth is the only free alternative I can think of.
The Excel integration isn't so good with that one, though. ;)
Grass GIS? What are you up to?
Mostly for visualizing country numbers or the numbers of subregions within a country.
I see that MapPoint will be discontinued at the end of the year.
It'll be replaced by PowerBI's PowerMap features for Excel, it appears. Only 400-600 bucks per year per person. :lol:
Quote from: Syt on July 23, 2014, 10:40:28 AM
The Excel integration isn't so good with that one, though. ;)
It's not so intuitive, but it's doable: http://ramblings.mcpher.com/Home/excelquirks/getmaps
Basically, the trick is to think of it as using Excel to generate KML files instead- so you're not generating maps so much as generating overlays for an existing map.
Thanks. :)
The colleague just went ahead and bought MapPoint, anyways. :P