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If you are looking for
an attraction or other place located in a city, type the place name, a comma,
the city name, a comma, and then the state or province name.
Avoid using
abbreviations. For example, type Fort instead of Ft.
If the place name looks
like an address, such as 12th Avenue Gallery, and you used the Find
box on the Navigation toolbar, MapPoint
may look for an address and not find the place you're looking for. Click the Place
/ Data tab on the Find dialog box, and try again.
Make
sure that you are searching in the appropriate country/region:
On the Address tab,
select the correct country/region in the Country list.
In the Find box
on the Navigation toolbar, be sure to enter the country/region name
along with the other address information.
Address coverage in
MapPoint is available for all of the United States and Canada.
Type as much of the
address as possible. Adding the ZIP Code or postal code
is especially helpful.
Do not include
apartment, suite,
post office (P.O.) box numbers, or rural route (R.R.)
addresses
in the street address.
Do not include
fractions. For example, if the address is 654 1/2 Carlson Street, type 654
Carlson Street.
If you are not sure of
the correct spelling of a street or city name, type the closest approximation
you can to view a list of possible choices, and then click the best match in
the list.
If a street name
includes an ampersand (&), replace the ampersand with the word "and."
(Ampersands are used to denote intersections.)
If you cannot find an
address that includes an abbreviation, try spelling it out. For example, try Saint
James if "St. James" is not recognized.
MapPoint
maps are based on the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) datum. Some maps and
GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) systems are based on other datums. If you
obtained a latitude and longitude from a map or GPS system based on another
datum, that location may appear in a different place on MapPoint
maps.
You can express
latitude and longitude coordinates in decimal or degrees, minutes, and seconds
(DMS) format. Make sure you're not mixing formats.
If you're entering DMS
coordinates, make sure that you're using one of the following formats, where D
indicates direction (north, south, east, or west):
dd.mm.ssD
dd:mm:ssD
dd mm ssD
dd°mm'ss"D
If you are entering
coordinates in decimal format, make sure to use the minus sign ("-") to
indicate a location that is south of the equator or west of the prime meridian.
If you have changed the
default decimal symbol defined for your computer, make sure to use the same
decimal symbol when entering coordinates in decimal format or using a decimal
symbol for DMS coordinates.
On the Route
menu, click Directions. Find the instruction that you want to search
around, and double-click it. That portion of the route is then selected on the
map. In the Around box on the Find Nearby Places pane, select Selected
driving instruction. Make any other refinements to your search, and
then click Search.
Be sure to enter the
name exactly as it appears in the mapped data.
If you can't remember
the exact name of your data point, you can review the names of each data point
in a mapped data set. On the View menu, click Legend and Overview.
In the legend, select the name of the data set to which your data point
belongs. On the Data menu, click Data Set Properties. Click the Matching
tab to see a list of the names of all data points in that data set.
If the name of your
data point is the same as or similar to other place names on the map, such as a
state or county name, the list of possible matches for your search may be quite
long. Be sure to scroll through the list for the name of your data point.