Re: Mappping multiple locations

One product that you could look at (as I'm not aware of any free ones) is
Microsoft's "Streets & Trips".  Its actually pretty good at locating people
across North America.  You just have to have a reasonable well formatted
address table.  The address locations can be formatted to be (as you
mentioned) stars, or flags etc.  Address locations are geo-referenced via
Microsoft's road network (can't remember who they get it from).  All in all,
not bad ... and I think it was only about $65 Canadian (probably less in
usd.).  Hope this helps.

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James Burn BSc, GIS(PG), AScT
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