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A post that is pending since a long time (sorry Mikhail!):

A Mikhail Novikov, the russian developer behind Jotle, the great mashup between GoogleMaps, Placeopedia, GeoNames, YouTube and Flickr made a mobile version of Jotle, using J2MEmap!

This mobile version provides access to Placeopedia and GeoNames from mobile, as well as a link to Wikipedia from the same application!

Congratulation, and good work!

(the link to the app will be posted soon)

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Back from Barcelona since more than a week, with two important news:

• First, we did not win the LBS Challenge! But anyway, it was a crazy week, and the contest was extremely interesting. It was already incredible to be selected as a semi-finalist amongs the hundreds of submitted projects
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• The second important news, is that the future of J2memap will come through somethings called “8Motions”. 8Motions will be the brand used for a future application based on J2memap. J2memap will remains the “technical” name of the library…More information on this later on!

Going back to the LBSChallenge, you can see some picture that were taken during the contest, using the 8Motions application (tag lbschallenge ):

As you can see, the contest was hosted in this nice house, a few hundreds meter from the 3Gsm…. And a great thanks to Navteq for the challenge and the organisation! Thanks again to all of them, and especially to Robin Jackson….

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I have some bad times these days:

• My provider cut my account several times, due to an overload in SQL database usage! This happens three times, and I do not understand where does this overload come from! (but is there any quota that can be set on MySql by an admin for a shared hosting?)
• I’ve changed my PC, reinstalled everything. The bad news is that obfuscation does not work anymore! I am investigating, but I can not regenrate production version of J2memap for the moment
• Google map changed once again the API version, so some older version are not working any more! If this happens, enable the “use proxy” mode…

Also, I plan to do a longuer report about 3gsmand LBSChallenge later this week!

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 Just discovered through the log that J2memap has been tested on an E90, trough Rogers Wireless! Did not find any picture of this device yet….But exciting to know that you app has been used to test such device….. 800×352 size, AND JSR179 (Location API). But don’t know if there is GPS in it!

Note: MobileZoo also picked up the info!

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