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One useful but often forgotten feature of Outlook’s Contacts is the ability to map the contact’s address using MapPoint on CD or through a web site if MapPoint is not installed.

When you need a map of a contact’s address, open a contact and press the Display Map button to connect to a web-based mapping service. If MapPoint is installed, the yellow icon is replaced with a map icon and it uses MapPoint to map the contact's location. (Or use Actions, Display Map of Address menu.)

When MapPoint is installed, you can create web-based maps by disabling the MapPoint Com addin by opening Tools, Options, Other, Advanced Options, Com Addins and remove the check from the MapPoint Addin.

Outlook originally used maps on the Expedia website and Microsoft recently redirected the URL to mappoint.com. However, Outlook 2000 does not redirect properly and users are unable to use the external mapping service. If you use Outlook 2000 and don’t have MapPoint installed, you can edit the registry to enable another web-based mapping service.

Edit Outlook 2000’s registry by opening the Start menu, Run command and typing regedit then press Ok. Navigate to the registry key
 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Options\General

Right click in the right pane and choose New, String Value. Enter
MapScriptURL for the string value name. Double click on the MapScriptURL key to open it and enter the URL you want to use for the data value. You have at least three choices to use for the data value.

To use MapQuest, use this URL as the data value:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=<0s>&city=<1s>&state=<2s>&zip=<3s>

For MapPoint, enter:
http://mappoint.msn.com/home.aspx?strt1=<0s>&city1=<1s>&stnm1=<2s>&zipc1=<3s>
&src=OL&o1=<0s>&o2=<1s>&o3=<2>&o4=<3s>&o5=<4s>

Expedia (uses MapPoint maps)
http://www.expediamaps.com/default.asp?street=<0s>&city=<1s>&state=<2s>&zip=<3s>

and for Yahoo Maps, enter this URL:
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps?newFL=&addr=<0s>&csz=<1s>+<2s>+<3s>&srchtype=a&getmap=Get+Map

Now when you select the map button, Outlook brings up the internet map of your choice.

Outlook 2002 uses MapPoint by default, but if you want to use Yahoo Maps or Map Quest with Outlook 2002, you can use this registry key as well. Don’t forget that Outlook 2002’s version is 10.0 when navigating to the proper key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Options\General.
This registry key doesn’t appear to work with Outlook 2003, causing it to crash

To use other web-based mapping services, you’ll need to know the URL that is sent back to the server. Once you have that, replace the address fields with the codes Outlook uses: