Thanks for the tips - I've had the issue: "My map exceeds the maximum number of spatial elements" Most of the solutions offered seemed impractical in my scenario, but "Decrease the map resolution." caught my eye. But how?After some trial and erro...

Note that this great functionality does not actually work "out-of-the-box" - an undocumented workaround hack of rsreportserver.config is required. For details refer:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/02c93dc3...

I concur with the sentiment in this post: "BOL doesn't really make it clear what STDistance returns"http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlspatial/thread/e04f0afd-a266-4847-bc21-5e42669e5eb5Microsoft - please clarify. Thanks.

Please note the path given above for the sqlua.msi files on the SQL Server installation media appears to be wrong? On my media they are under: \1033_ENU_LP\x86\redist\Upgrade Advisor

It might help in understanding the section on Match Index Options to note that while the Transformation Properties pane shows a single property MatchIndexOptions, the Editor seems to set this based on several fields: Generate new index, Store new...