Visual Basic as the scripting language helps significantly to achieve these goals. It makes creating maps relatively simple. Several templates are included for web page design and mapping functions. To illustrate the ease with which a developer can create web maps, the VB Script used to produce a simple map is shown below. Templates for producing different types and layout of web maps are included in the webMapServer COM to help developers produce effective results.
Most current applications are for business, commerce, industry and education.
It is being used to show locations of businesses, to show the distribution of a national network of business outlets or service centres, to provide route planning from maps of streets in cities, and to provide intelligent integrated maps offering value-added services such as Postcode to Postcode distances for freight transport planning. Graticule can supply digital map data with webMapServer COM to meet requirements. Map data from cartographic publishers is available and is sold under licence for Internet use. The terms and conditions of the licence vary but Graticule can assist in sourcing appropriate map data for to meet requirements. The price of a single developer's licence for webMapServer COM library for Microsoft Windows NT 4 servers is 995 and the price of the annual licence per server on which the software is installed is 300.