The Poor Man's Way to Mapping with Visual Basic

Have you ever wanted to do mapping in Visual Basic but couldn't
afford the thousands of dollars it costs for top-of-shelf
Geographic Information Systems?  Well here is your answer.  By
trade I am a Market Analyst.  My job requires me to analyze and
present data.  I was tired of the old tables and bar graphs and
spent to much time filling in states in paint programs.  So I
set out to create a fast and effective way to make a thematic
map of the continental United States.  This is not a VBX or DLL, just
simple and effective code.

So how can you take advantage of my work?  Well, there are two approaches.
Both require sending me $19.00 to the address below.  By registering the
code module with me I will send you all of the code.  You can drop the form, 
with the coordinated map into your program and simply make a one line function 
call to it for each state to color, or you can look at the detailed and 
documented code to discover how I accomplished this feature.  I suggest 
the latter,because this ability offers you several opportunities, not 
just mapping.

Whats next?  If you look at the sample program you will notice that California,
New York and Washington state have been hotspotted.  This means that by moving 
the mouse over the state you know which state you are over.  To try this, move
the mouse over one of these states and see its state abbreviation appear in the 
bottom right corner.  Once each state is coordined off, I am working on detail
maps of each state with county information.  So in the future, the user will
be able to click a state and see even more detail.  I included this code so
if you don't want to wait for me you can do it yourself, or maybe you have a
better approach and I will send you $19.

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