SQL Server 2008 WKT X/Y Switching Illustrated

UPDATE: Microsoft has announced that they will address this issue in an upcoming CTP. They plan to implement longitude-latitude ordering in WKB and WKT for both the geography and geometry types.
In a response to my previous post, Brian Flood mentioned the ongoing discussion about SQL Server 2008 and the “switching” of X and Y values [...]

Inserting SQL 2008 Geometry With a SqlCommand

I’m in the process of using SharpMap to write a utility to load spatial data into my SQL Server 2008 instance. A couple of the SharpMap data providers have a static method to load data from a shapefile (really any other SharpMap data provider, but I digress). The method creates a table and uses an [...]

MSDN Article on Mapping with WPF

I found this article today about using VB9 and WPF to draw thematic maps. It’s a good walk-through of how to do it. The article admits that the coordinate transformation used is not terribly accurate but that can be rectified. This article is a good example of how to build a mapping application without any [...]