Visio layout integrated with Maps on Reporting Service

Question

Hi there,
We have an idea at my office to develop an office map to assist the employees with finding meeting rooms as well as where other people sit around the office.
Is it possible to office develop layouts using Visio and then exporting these office layouts to SSRS?
If this is possible we would want to develop parameterized reports on SSRS that the users can specify their filters and the office layout is displayed using the map controls.
If you know any helpful links can you please assist me.
Regards
Tibz
regards Tibz

Answer 1

Hi TibzLebese,
Per my understanding you want to create and map to map the office layout, such as the meeting rooms location and people sit, right?
In fact, the SSRS 2008 R2 and later version have the function to create an map.There are three ways to create a new map layer. Maps are based on spatial data that typically consists of points, lines, and polygons. For example, a polygon can represent
the outline of a county, a line can represent a road, and a point can represent the location of a city. Each type of spatial data is displayed on a separate map layer as a set of map elements.
In your scenario, your data should be point coordinates, so I suggest to add the map point layer to display the location of the meeting rooms and the people sit.
Before to add the map point layer to display the location, we should correctly create the SQL Server spatial query which contains Spatial data, spatial data include coordinates that define geographic or geometric elements.
Article about  details information about the creation of the map for your reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee240828.aspx
http://abc-techblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/ssrs-dynamic-zoom-for-maps-in-reporting.html
http://sqlandsiva.blogspot.com/2011/08/sql-server-2008-r2-ssrs-maps-feature.html 
If you have any question, please feel free to ask.
Best Regards
Vicky Liu