Tutorials and tips

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Select the category tutorial: you will find there all tutorials to begin your first application.

Some excerpts from the forum :

Own Map Integration

To create a new map provider, that’s quite simple:
- implement a MapOverlay interface

OR (even simpler)
- use the GenericOverlay class and provide your own “url”, like this:
GenericOverlay myOverlay=new GenericOverlay(”OpenStreetMap”,”http://tile.openstreetmap.org/!z!/!x!/!y!.png”);

There are various sepecific value available to manage x,y,z, or quadrant interface. If you want to do something more complex, you need to do it yourself.

Then, just do this:
mapDisaply.setCurMap(myOverlay);
(and by the way, you can add this in the list of map provider if you want).

Also see this post : cloudmade available on j2memap

Create an Overlay Using Quadran Location

To create an overlay, it’s quite easy: MapCruncher use a “quadrant” approach. I won’t explain it in details, but each tile has is located in a unique quadrant location. The good thing is that J2memap provide now an easy way to convert an x/y/z location into a quadrant, thanks to the “computeQuadrantString” function…

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EVEN ON MARKER

There is two ways to do it:

- use a MapDisplayListener and react to the events “onLocationSelected” and “onLocationOpenend”

- if you created the points through a track, you can also use the TrackListener and the events “onLocSelected” and “onLocOpened”

More

Have a look in the forum…