8Motions blog

In French, from “Trans-Id” blog: 8Motions: donnez toutes les cartes à votre mobile

Thanks a lot!

Big news: 8Motions (the J2memap successor) support now translation. For new, english, french and russian are supported.

First, thanks to Andrew Petrov who made the Russian traduction of the client. So we are looking for more translator. The process is fairly easy: just download this CSV file, and use a plain text editor, or eventually excel or open office to edit it and add a new column with your language, and send me back the result at 8motions@gmail.com

The translation file for the monbile is here: http://www.8motions.com/res/lang.csv
while the one for the web is here, but just started: http://www.8motions.com/res/languageWeb.csv

And don’t be shy, put your name in the “trans_author” line to be added into the credit list!

Update:

Thanks to Wilfred Chan and “king midi” for their help in the chineese traduction, both on the handset and the web site. I did not experimented yet with Chineese, so I am not sure that the web site will switch automatically in Chineese, I will add soon a popup to select the lange directly from the web site.

The j2memap forum moved to my new hosting, and is now under phpBB3. Hopefully, there is not anymore manual confirmation, the new default phpBB3 capcha, so I hope that this will be enough to stop spammers….

This post will be both in French and English, as it’s “Paris Centric”

Pour demontrer certaines des capacités du moteur de “Mapz”, une petite extension Velib a été crée. Elle permet de voir les stations les plus proches de l’endroit ou vous trouvez, ainsi que le status (nombre de vélos libre) de cette station. La grande nouveauté est que cette extension peut utiliser le GPS interne ou externe (via Bluetooth) de votre téléphone si vous en disposez. Ceci devrait fonctionner parfaitement sur un Nokia N95 par exemple
De plus, elle affiche aussi la carte SUR le mobile, afin de mieux visualiser ou ce trouve cette sation.

Pour l’obtenir, clickez sur le lien ci-dessus, et télécharger le client sur mobile. Si l’affichage ne demarre pas tout seul, allez dans “Mapz” et choisissez “Velib”

To demonstrate the capacities of the “Mapz” engine, a small extension has been created this week end. It allows you to see the nearest Velib station. Velib is a smart system put in place in Paris (and some other cities) where you can reat a bike for some hour in a “station”. You can then give back the bike to another “station”. The issue, for Parisian, is to find the nearest station, and to know if there is a free bike available at the station.
Thanks to Velib map, they are now able to do this!

Identificateurs Technorati : n95, gps, mobile, velib, map