Drawing a gas pipeline and showing affected property boundaries

[Paul H]

I am a Microsoft Access developer and have programmed in VBA for many
years.

The project I am working on needs to visually display domestic and
commercial property boundaries and the path of a proposed pipeline
through those boundaries.

This is pretty new to me, but I am assuming that the client will
supply me with the following data:

1. GPS data for each point of each propertry boundary, so that
boundary 'shapes' can be constructed on a map. Hmm..or maybe even a
'static' map (i.e. a drawing of the area supplied by the UK Land
Registry) that I can overlay the pipeline onto.
2. GPS data for each point (section) of the pipeline, so that the path
of the pipeline can be plotted.

With this data could I use Mappoint to build a map that will allow the
user to visually see which properties will be affected by the
pipeline?

Can I embed the 'Live' map into Access? In this case, will each user
of the Access application need Mappoint installed?

As a Mappoint novice, but experienced VBA programmer, could I figure
out how to do all this in a few days? Weeks? Months?

Thanks,

Paul