Archive for Mobile Map applications
A new partnership between 8motions and Mappy
8motions and Mappy will partner up to facilitate the creation of geolocation systems designed for mobile phones. Together the technical expertise of the two companies will bring the most up-to-date mapping solutions to users (only professionals). Mappy cartography will be directly integrated into our “mobile map toolkit”.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for any further [...]
WhereRYou: OpenCellID Blackberry client
WhereRYou is an OpenCellID Blackberry client, created by Aris Volcoff. This application works in the background and use the OpenCellID Backend, so not really graphical, but here is a small snapshot:
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OpenCellID client for SonyEricsson phones with sources
Pär Bertilsson have created a nice client that can be used on SonyEricsson phone that use an external bluetooth receiver to fill the OpenCellID database! Again, thanks to SonyEricsson to be the first one to implement an easy way to access to CellID from the phone, and thanks to Pär for creating this nice client [...]
CloudMade available on J2memap
CloudMade is a company which provide services and support on top of OpenStreetMap datas. It’s very easy to integrate CloudMade with J2memap. To do this, let’s take our hello world example, and put cloud made data instead of default map datas. You just need a CloudMade API Key, so contact CloudMade for this.
The cloudMade URL [...]
Another J2memap based client: Teoo
Teeo.Fr is a new Website based on the J2memap library, and which is a social application helping you to display your friends on your mobile phone.
Nice works from Medhi, the developer, which will share some informations with us about his experience of J2memap soon….
Tutorial: loading a KML file using the J2memap library
Ok, following some requests, here is another tutorial on how to use the J2memap library. First, note that if you just want to display a KML file on mobile, you can use 8Motions directly, no need to create your own application.
Anyway, here we are going to show you how to create a very simple app [...]
OpenCellID re-integrate GsmLoc data
Jon Spinney from Maperture blog pointed on my previous post the effort of Christopher Schmidt from GSMLoc to create the same kind of database. So thanks to both of them, I’ve integrated the previous database of GPS cell, and we are now at 15301 cells covered with 541728 mesurements…
Introducing OpenCellId
Here is a project that I wanted to introduce to you: OpenCellID.The purpose of this project is to create an OpenSource database of GSM cells.
Why? Because this can be used as a “cheap” way to get your location. There is not a lot of phones that provides this access to JavaMe application (mostly SonyEricsson), [...]
Mashup are hitting PND
Dash corporation, who plans (since a long time) to launch a connected PND will bring mashup capacities to this PND: the ability to display user generated content on their PND…Seems not to far to the Mapz concept that I’ve introduced yesterday!
Through Techcrunch
Library upgrade
A new version of the library has been deployed. As usual, go to http://j2memap.8motions.com and register to download it!
This correct some small bugs, and include the latest version of the Google Map API numbers….