A Mapping and GIS Add-In by ThinkGeo

Add Rich Satellite Photography to Your Mapping Applications!

Map Suite Raster USA is an add-in component for the Desktop, Web or Engine edition of Map Suite. Raster USA interfaces with Microsoft's TerraServer-USA™ to retrieve image tiles and "stitch" them together to form scenes that give your maps amazing satellite imaging.
(NOTE: See Microsoft's TerraServer USA web site for Terms of Use and FAQ.)

Spend More Time on your Applications and Less on Imaging

With Raster USA you can spend more time developing your applications and less time worrying about the background imaging for your maps. Many spatial applications use background images to supplement maps as a backdrop, so why should you spend time with the difficult tasks of acquiring and rendering images when you have requirements to tackle? Raster USA provides you with a great starting point to kick-start your spatial development.

Support for Multiple Types of Map Images

Raster USA provides support for multiple types of map images available on the Microsoft TerraServer™. Photo Maps are black and white satellite images of the current extent. Urban Area Maps are color images that are only available for certain larger urban areas such as Seattle, San Francisco, Kansas City etc. Lastly, Topographical Maps are graphic representations of the surface features of a place or region on a map. This is only available for certain larger urban areas as well.

Easy as 1... 2... 3...

You can literally setup Raster USA in just minutes.

1. Open a project with either a Map Suite Desktop or Map Suite Web map on it.
2. Reference the Raster USA DLL
3. Enter a few lines of code in the page load and BeforeLayersDraw() event & hit the play button!

System Requirements

Raster USA is designed to be used with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework v1.1. Map Suite Desktop, Map Suite Web or Map Suite Engine are also required.