8Motions blog

Some snapshot of one of the new effect to be introduced in the new client version: a cool “iTune” like effect. Will not be available on all browsers, but look quite cool….Hope to have a screen cast soon.

Identificateurs Technorati : j2memap, itune

Looking for beta testers of the new version ofJ2memap, named “8Motions”. Far from what will be the final release, but enough to play a little bit! So just go to http://www.8motions.com and let me know what happends with your phone.

This feature a great new Ruby On Rail server side, the ability to create your map (or import them) and download them on your mobile, and more to be discovered later on…..

Part of the server used to host J2memap dev tools and 8motions are migrating today. If you still encounter some issues let me know.

MGMaps, another provider of free mobile mapping software has been forced to remove the GoogleMap support of his software.

Sad news. For j2memap, I’ve been trying to contact GoogleMap and the Microsft several times, to get an agreement with them to use more “legally” their map. Only Microsoft answered, but the offering was at that point (beginning of this year) not really mature. Google never answered despite several letter to different people….

Note that if you use the “proxy mode”, the Google statellite tiles might not appear because their proxy is blocking a single platform (mine) to do too many request per day (too many does not seems to be very big, something like 1000 requests)….

Technorati Tags: mgmaps, google maps, mobile, maps