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Asked: 2026-05-10T22:36:11+00:00

I need a 2d political map of the world on which I will draw

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I need a 2d political map of the world on which I will draw icons, text, and lines that move around. Users will interact with the map, placing and moving the icons, and they will zoom in and out of the map.

The Google Maps interface isn’t very far from what I need, but this is NOT web related; it’s a Windows MFC application and I want to talk to a C++ API for a map that lives in the application, not a web interface. Ideally I don’t want a separate server, either, and any server MUST run locally (not on the Internet). What canned map package or graphics library should I use to do this? I have no graphics programming experience.

This is strictly 2D, so I don’t think something like Google Earth or WorldWind would be appropriate. Good vector graphics support would be cool, and easy drawing of bitmaps is important.

All the canned options seem web oriented. SDL is about all I know of for flexible canvas programming, but it seems like making my own map would be a lot of work for what is probably a common problem. Is there anything higher level? Maybe there’s a way to interact with an adobe Flash object? I’m fairly clueless.

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  1. Perhaps: http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap

    ESRI MapObjects http://www.esri.com/software/mapobjects/index.html ESRI MapObjects LT http://www.esri.com/software/mapobjectslt/index.html

    See http://www.esri.com/software/mapobjectslt/about/mo_vs_lt.html for a comparison of the two MapObjects feature sets.

    ESRI may have a replacement to the MapObjects libraries

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