Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use internal GPS features on some phones in order to automatically display the map for your current position. You can pre-download maps and store them on your memory card in order to use them on the go without accessing the internet.
Mobile GMaps is distributed under the Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivs Creative Commons license. You may download, use and distribute the application free of charge only for personal, non-commercial purposes.
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Status Updates (August 3rd, 2008)
After a break of two months, we're back with a few updates:
- MGMaps v1.41.03 fixes a few problems in earlier versions and brings a few updates:
- Added support for Walking Directions and Avoid Highways options. These are configurable in the Search screen.
- Application user-agent was changed to fix some compatibility problems with custom map providers and some operators.
- Advanced settings menu was fixed, it was not functional before.
- Poland and Czech Republic were added to the list of "home" countries in the search screen.
- (since v1.41.02) A new GPS option is available on Windows Mobile phones, GPSGate. As the internal GPS is not supported by default on most WM phones, this option allows MGMaps to connect to a 3rd party software (such as GPSGate or GPSPort) that provides a virtual GPS port. For more information see the topic on the forum.
- Other minor bugs were fixes.
- MGMaps v1.39.16 is also out, it includes some of the fixes in v1.41.03 — user-agent fix and GPSGate support.
- gMapMaker was updated to v0.7.1 beta 4, it includes the user-agent fix described above.
- Dmytro Dykhman is working on a few updates to MGMaps for Blackberry, he has added support for Offline Search (search for an address within a preloaded list of geocoded addresses) and a few other features. For more information and download links, see the forum.
- The Verisign certificate that I'm using is expiring in less than three weeks. I have applied for a new one, but the current versions of MGMaps signed with the old one will not install after August 22. I have started a topic on the forum where you can post requests to re-sign specific versions that you may need to install or re-install on your phone.
Stay tuned for more important announcements coming this month!
More news...
Nutimap mapping application for Estonia, based on MGMaps
Nutiteq, an Estonian company, has developed a mobile application based on MGMaps with some additional features localized for Estonia. The application is named Nutimap, and displays maps from an additional source (Regio), includes local points of interests (POIs) and can determine your approximate location based on the mobile network signal information. Nutiteq also provides MGMaps Pro SDK licensing, support and custom development services. For more details see http://www.nutiteq.com.
Here's what you can find on this site
New pages:
- /cache/ — tools for downloading map tiles and caching them in MGMaps for use with the stored maps feature.
- /create/ — Shustrik's .map file creation tool for MGMaps. Allows you to select an area and generate a file that you can use with the caching tools (gMapMaker or MapTileFE).
- /winset/ — instructions to install Mobile GMaps on a Windows-Mobile smartphone or PDA / PocketPC.
- /weme/ — mirror of the IBM Websphere Micro JVM for Windows-Mobile devices and for Windows XP — the latter allows you to run MGMaps on your PC.
- /kml/ — view maps from Windows Live, Yahoo and other sources in Google Earth.
The rest:
- MGMaps News — to-do list and news about the application (check here for new versions)
- Download Page — contains instructions for downloading MGMaps to your mobile phone
- Forum — discuss any questions related to Mobile GMaps
- Help Center — configuration and usage instructions, frequently-asked questions, known problems, list of supported phones and operators and more. The instructions are a bit outdated, they were written for an older version of MGMaps - for new info check the forum.
- Feedback — Do you like MGMaps? Do you hate it? Have you found any bugs? Would you like a feature implemented? Do you have any questions not answered in the FAQ? — send a message and let me know!
This website and the application are under permanent development, come back often to check for new versions.
Mobile GMaps is copyright © 2005-2007 by Cristian Streng. The application uses the floating-point library copyright © 2002-2005 by Nikolay Klimchuk and available for free download here. This application is NOT affiliated with or officially supported by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com or any of their partners. All map tiles and satellite imagery displayed by the application are copyright by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and their partners, and all searches are performed using Google Maps search features. Read the Google Maps Terms and Conditions, Yahoo! Maps Terms of Use, Windows Live Local Terms of Use and Ask Maps Terms of Service for more information.
