MapObjects is a set of mapping software components that let you embed maps into your applications. You can combine MapObjects with components from other vendors, such as graphing, multimedia, and database objects.
Features:
-Display a map with multiple map layers, such as roads, streams and boundaries.
-Pan and zoom throughout a map.
-Draw graphic features such as points, lines, ellipses, rectangles and polygons.
-Draw descriptive text.
-Identify features on a map by pointing at them.
-Select features along lines and inside boxes, areas, polygons, and circles.
-Select features within a specified distance of other features.
-Select features with an SQL expression.
-Calculate basic statistics on selected features.
-Query and update attribute data associated with selected features.
-Render features with thematic methods such as value maps, class breaks, dot density, charts, events or by Z values.
-Label features with text from field values.
-Create new shapefiles.
-Draw images from aerial photography or satellite imagery.
-Dynamically display real-time or time-series data.
-Type in an address and find a location on a map.
-Project your data into different coordinate systems.
I used MapObjects 2.0 as a professional, in conjunction with relational databases (i.e., SQL Server and Microsoft Access), to achieve a number of remarkable results.