From Winmag®
If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine the value of a map illustrating your company's or customers' average sales by zip code or county. You can do that and much more with the help of the excellent wizards and easy user interface in MapPoint 2000, which I tested in beta. MapPoint translates numbers (from an Excel list or Access database, for example) onto a map of the United States. You can then integrate these maps into your Office documents; MapPoint provides the tools for annotation.
There are dozens of customization options. For instance, you can choose the number (up to eight) and color of data intervals (sales under $5,000, $5,000-$10,000, and so on). MapPoint 2000 is more flexible and produces better-looking results than Visio Maps.