选择Map Suite的理由:

• 极具竞争力的价格和免版税的许可模式。
• 丰富的在线演示，丰富的开发资源、使用教程和数百个示例。
• GIS功能完善 - 空间查询、路由和地理编码等等。
• 原生.NET应用，在Visual Studio中使用C#或VB.NET创建。
• 由Map Suite开发人员驻守的论坛有数以千计的帖子。
• 全球拥有1,000多个客户，其中有20多个跻身财富500强。

Map Suite .NET控件&组件

Map Suite适用于各种不同的平台，特别是Windows桌面、Web、Silverlight等等。

针对Windows桌面应用程序和服务

针对Web应用程序

针对原生移动应用程序

针对服务器应用程序和Web服务

扩展与插件

这些附加插件可以提升你的GIS或空间绘图项目的各种功能。

Map Suite功能特征（适用于每个版本）

• 原生.NET控件
• 无遗留的COM/ActiveX源码。
• 包含完整IntelliSense的流线型API
  • 无需记住类和方法，Visual Studio会帮你完成这些。
• 支持.NET 4.0框架
  • 最新版.NET框架的功能能给你带来最佳的开发体验。
• 基于C#或VB.NET编码，简单易懂
  • 使用你已经熟悉的C#和Visual Basic语言进行开发。
• 支持多种矢量和栅格数据格式
  • 包括Shapefile、TAB、FileGeodatabase、SQL 2008、GeoTIFF、JPEG2000等等。
• 内置迷你地图、层转换器、平移/缩放控制和比例线
  • 内置一整套基础而又关键的地图控件。
• 优化显示细节的定制化缩放级别
  • 隔离显示功能，例如当缩小时可以显示更多的细节。
• 强大的投影引擎
  • 可以在成千上万个项目中投影或重投影数据。
• 支持光栅重投影
  • 在运行时重投影你的航空影像以匹配你的地图数据。
• 空间查询
  • 显示基于空间规则的地图数据的子集。
• 几何函数
  • 转换（例如混合、分片、划分）形状或者查找空间关系。
• 高效的几何图形库
  • 可选的SQL类型库大大的提升了几何图形操作的性能。
• SQL查询
  • 创建基于SQL数据库信息的动态地图。
• 动态上下文菜单
  • 当在特征、标记等地方单击鼠标右键时，动态弹出上下文菜单，提供一些额外的功能。
• 环绕国际日期变更线
  • 跨国际日期变更线使得和太平洋中心地图更简单。
• 视觉绚丽的风格和渲染器
  • 包括类断点、点密度、正则表达式、图表和图形等众多地图风格。
• 支持创建和显示GRID文件
  • 使用插值法可视化基于单元格的样本数据。
• 绘制、编辑和操作图形
  • 交互式图形绘制和编辑、拖拽移动、旋转和调整等等。
• 支持Web Map Service (WMS)
  • 从符合标准WMS规格的在线GIS服务引入地图图像。
• 支持多种语言
  • Unicode插件允许使用复杂的语言进行绘图和标记。
• 支持自定义标签
  • 为自己编写提供定制化标签渲染逻辑的插件。
• 序列化地图功能
  • 序列化地图图形，并将它们保存到XML或从XML中加载。
• 定制化GIS服务
  • 无需GUI就可以开发后端GIS服务。
• 高度定制化控件
  • 有了我们扩展的对象模型和插件构架，Map Suite能满足你的任何需求。

If you’re a .NET shop, Map Suite is the map SDK that you must have in your toolbox.

Just a Few Compelling Reasons to Choose Map Suite:

• Competitive pricing and a royalty-free licensing model
• Free product download and demos – No sign-up necessary
• Complete GIS suite – Spatial querying, routing, geocoding, and more
• Native .NET – Built for use with Visual Studio using C# or VB.NET
• Exhaustive resources for developers
• A wiki with documentation and hundreds of samples
• Forum with thousands of posts, manned by Map Suite developers
• More than 1,000 customers worldwide with over 20 in the Fortune 500

Map Suite .NET Controls & Components

Map Suite is available in a variety of platform-specific editions aimed at the Windows desktop, web, Silverlight and beyond.

WPF Desktop Edition

Map Suite WPF Desktop Edition takes GIS application development for the Windows desktop to a whole new level, with a .NET-native control that packs the full power of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). With blazing fast rendering performance, powerful mapping features and support for the most popular data formats, Map Suite WPF Desktop Edition makes GIS accessible to developers of any skill.

WinForms Desktop Edition

Map Suite WinForms Desktop Edition is a powerful .NET control that adds interactive maps to your Windows Forms applications. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and C# or VB.NET, Map Suite lets you develop software that conveys geospatial data in a rich, interactive medium. Packed with powerful mapping features and support for the most popular map data formats, Map Suite Desktop Edition makes GIS accessible to developers of any skill.

Silverlight Edition

Map Suite Silverlight Edition is a .NET native GIS software control that lets .NET developers add rich, interactive Silverlight maps to their web applications and mobile web apps. Now you can harness the full power of a professional GIS control in the sleek, next-generation interfaces of Microsoft Silverlight. This is not a slimmed-down control — it's full-featured GIS for Silverlight!

MVC Edition

Map Suite MVC Edition is a .NET control for programmers that brings interactive maps and GIS functionality to ASP.NET MVC applications. Thanks to the speed and flexibility of MVC, Map Suite will help you deliver next-generation GIS software applications to desktop browsers and mobile devices alike. Together with Map Suite's simple API and royalty-free distribution, you can take your web-based GIS applications to market in record time, across the widest variety of platforms.

Web Edition

Map Suite Web Edition is a .NET native GIS control that allows software developers to create interactive online mapping applications with ease. Packed with powerful AJAX interactivity, a simple API that makes coding easy, and royalty-free distribution, Map Suite Web Edition enables you to bring your ASP.NET WebForms GIS applications to market in record time.

Windows Phone Edition

Map Suite Windows Phone Edition is the premier solution for software developers who want to add GIS and interactive maps to their Windows Phone 8 apps. Built upon the powerful Map Suite core foundation, Windows Phone Edition lets you take the full array of Map Suite GIS features on the road or easily port your existing Map Suite projects. And with support for touch events, it also gives your maps the same familiar interactivity that users have come to expect from their mobile devices.

Services Edition

Map Suite Services Edition is a complete GIS development framework for creating Web services, Windows services and console applications that do not require a built-in user interface. Native to the Microsoft .NET Framework, Map Suite Services Edition offers a next-generation GIS software development experience. Also known as the Map Suite Core, it is at the heart of every one of ThinkGeo's Map Suite developer controls.

WMS Server Edition

Map Suite WMS Server Edition is the fastest and easiest way to set up a high-performance, scalable and standards compliant Web Map Service (WMS). A WMS serves up map data as tiled images which are then consumed by client applications. With Map Suite WMS Server, you can create a cloud-based, load-balanced map service that can be consumed by any client application that supports WMS, including clients built with other Map Suite GIS developer controls.

Geocoder

Map Suite Geocoder is a native geocoding and reverse geocoding component for .NET that lets you convert a street address into a geographic location and vice-versa. It can also deliver additional details like county, FIPS codes, census tract and more. Plus, it ships with an optimized set of United States street data based on TIGER® 2012 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Extensions & Add-Ons

Enhance the feature set of your GIS or spatially-enabled mapping project with these additional plugins.

Map Suite World Map Kit SDK

The Map Suite World Map Kit SDK is an extension for our Map Suite line of .NET developer controls that includes everything you need to display professional-looking maps of any location on Earth. The kit comes with map data covering the world—plus enhanced street-level detail of the United States and Canada—and pre-built rendering classes that deliver beautiful maps instantly. The included source code allows you to redesign the maps or add your own data. Rendering classes are compatible with Map Suite 5.0 or higher.

Routing Extension

Let your mapping applications start taking you places! Map Suite Routing is an extension for the Map Suite family of developer controls that calculates routes and driving directions. This native .NET component gives your Map Suite applications the power to find the shortest path from A to B, deliver turn-by-turn directions, avoid specified areas, optimize for the Travelling Salesperson Problem and much more.

Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit

If you're looking to put together a Web-based vehicle tracking application with Map Suite Web Edition, the Vehicle Tracking Starter Kit is a great place to begin. Designed to be easy to use and filled with common tracking features, the kit demonstrates best practices through fully-commented source code in C# and VB.NET. Drop it into your Web Edition solution and kick-start your tracking project now!

Map Suite Source Kit

By popular request, we're offering the Map Suite Source Kit to help developers extend and enhance Map Suite's core features by providing C# source code behind several of our most popular core classes. From FeatureSources to GeoStyles, the Source Kit lets you see the "guts" behind many of your favorite classes, making it easier to extend them for your own custom implementation. While this is not the complete source code to Map Suite, it can make implementing your own custom Map Suite functionality much easier.

Features in Every Edition of Map Suite

• Native .NET control

  No legacy COM or ActiveX for you (or your users) to mess with

• Streamlined API with full IntelliSense

  No need to memorize classes and methods; let Visual Studio guide you

• Designed for .NET Framework 4.0

  Leverages new .NET framework features for the best developer experience

• Easy coding in C# or VB.NET

  Use the C# and Visual Basic languages you are already familiar with

• Support for many vector and raster data formats

  Including Shapefile, TAB, FileGeodatabase, SQL 2008, GeoTIFF, JPEG2000 and many more

• Built-in mini-map, layer switcher, pan/zom controls and scale lines

  A full suite of basic yet essential map controls come built in

• Customizable zoom levels for optimal display detail

  Segregate feature display; for instance, display more map detail as you zoom in

• Robust projection engine

  Project or reproject your data in any one of thousands of projections

• Raster reprojection support

  Reproject your aerial imagery on the fly to match your map data

• Spatial querying

  Display a subset of map data based on a set of spatial rules

• Geometric functions

  Transform (e.g. blend, clip, divide) shapes or find spatial relationships

• High-performance geometry library

  Optional SQL types library offers huge performance gains in some geometric operations

• SQL querying

  Create dynamic maps based on info from your SQL database

• Dynamic context menus

  Provide additional functionality when right-clicking on features, markers and so on

• Dateline wrapping

  Span the international date line for easy Asia/Pacific-centric maps

• Visually stunning styles and renderers

  Map styles include class breaks, dot density, RegEx, charts & graphs and more

• Support for creating and displaying GRID files

  Visualize cell-based sample data using interpolation

• Draw, edit and manipulate shapes

  Interactive shape drawing and editing, drag-to-move, rotate and resize, and more

• Web Map Service (WMS) support

  Bring in map imagery from online GIS servers comforming to standard WMS specs

• Multi-language support

  Unicode plugin allows for mapping and labeling in complex languages

• Custom labeling support

  Write your own plugin providing custom label rendering logic

• Serializable map features

  Serialize map shapes and save them to / load them from XML

• Custom GIS services

  Develop back-end GIS-enabled services with no GUI required

• Incredibly customizable controls

  With our extensible object model and plugin architecture, Map Suite suits any need