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Graphic Information System (GIS) software compatible with Access

I've written a pretty extensive software package for a small gas/oil company, which pulls data together from several different systems that they use to generate reports and perform other cross-system analysis.

During a recent discussion, they offhandedly mentioned how nice it would be to be able to see a map of their wells, zoom in and mouse-over a site to get information about a particular well. I've seen a lot of this functionality on the web, but cannot say I've ever done or seen anything that was client/server based that does it.

Is anyone aware of a system or software package that I could tie into my Access application to do this?

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Glen Krinsky

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Dale Fye

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I'm researching both of the above, but I'm currently working another project, so it will be several days to a week before I can get back to this.

I saw in another post the other day about generating a KML file and simply opening it up using the application.followhyperlink method, but I think that requires GoogleEarth, and not all of the users will have that installed. If I can figure something out that can be run from google maps, without everyone having to download GoogleEarth, that would be a huge plus.

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Dale Fye

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Have not abandoned this, just have not gotten back to it yet.

Dale Fye

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Have not had a chance to implement this yet, but have done some more research and think I'm going to go the route of Google Maps.

Thanks for your input.