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Introducing 8Motions mapping client

If you are a long time follower of this blog, you probably now already what is 8Motions. Let me introduce more formally this cool new application:

What is 8Motions?

8Motions is a revolutionnary new mobile map client, full featured.

With 8Motions, you can do the following things:

  • Browse maps on your mobile. You can choose your map provider, between Google Map, Microsoft Live, Yahoo!Maps and ask.com
  • See map or satellite picture
  • Search for location, commerce
  • Connect a GPS (internal or external through bluetooth) to get your current location
  • Download “Maps” created by yourslef or other users
  • Download KML files, GPX, or GeoRSS file
  • Create and record tracks, that can be later uploaded to the web.
  • Take geolocalized picture
  • You can expend it and add more “layers”
    • OpenStreetMap
    • Traffic
  • use predefined extension:
    • Flickr search
    • Wikimapia
    • “Velib” tools
  • Can be linked directly to your Google “MyMaps” created maps.


Other features:
Multilanguage supported, French, English and Russia for now (translator needed!)
Ultra speed tile download

Companion WebSite, to create your own map, setup your settings: www.8motions.com

Note:

  • this program make use of your data connection, so ensure that you have the right data plan to use it.
  • It was based and it’s the evolution of “J2memap“

Want to download it? Press this button 

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm and is filed under 8Motions, Announcements, General, J2memap. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Introducing 8Motions mapping client”

  1. High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » links for 2007-10-11 Says:
    October 11th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

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  2. Del Simmons Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    What devices does this application support? I have a Blackberry 8700c freom Cingular and I get the following error when I try to run the application (v 0.9.40):

    ——————————————————
    Error starting _8Motions: Module ‘_8Motions’ has verification error 2778 at offset 2437
    ——————————————————

    I downloaded it OTA from http://www.8motions.com/m, and the page said : Phone Recognized: Mozilla/2.0

    Unsure why it said that when using the browser on my Blackberry.

    I have downloaded it twice, to make sure it hadn’t gotten munged up in transmission, but get the same error message every time.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks!

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