A new version of the library has been deployed. As usual, go to http://j2memap.8motions.com and register to download it!
This correct some small bugs, and include the latest version of the Google Map API numbers….
As you have probably noticed, J2memap as a project is moving to a company. And the great news of the week is that the project of this company was one of the winner of the “OSEO“(in French, sorry!) contest, organised by the French research agency: it was one of the 158 selected file out of 1153 proposed, and one of the twenty selected in the emerging software category.
So last Wenesday was the official ceremony, at “La Sorbonne”, with the french minister of education and research, Valerie Pecresse.
This mean also some funding for the project, and a great recognition as an innovative product. So expect to see more in the future.
This does not mean that J2memap will stop, or will be a commercial product: it will remains a free product for non commercial use….
After the announce of Street View by Google, a great enhancement for Google Map, Google mad another great announce today: The Google Maplets. Maplets are to mapping what Widgets are for Web sites: small application that can be easily added to your own map.
This interesting peace was missing with MyMaps, as it was only possible to add point, shape, etc… but no interaction. With Maplet, you can now create small “map oriented application” very easily, with some few line of JavaScript. Seems an easy way for third parties to integrate into GoogleMap and MyMap. Several of this “Maplet” seems to be sponsorised (or driven) by third parties site, like platial.
So when will we have maplet for mobile? May be sooner than you expect! 
A separed post about the KML support later on
Interested by creating cool mobile mashup, or by helping this nice project?
We are looking for some help/ideas in the following areas:
- You have some mashup ideas that you would like to implement?
- You want to participate to the project and you are a server side developper (Ruby On Rails?)
- You have some j2me knowledge
- Or you just want to help us on some various task (like managing forum!)
Just contact me (thomas.landspurg at gmail.com )
Short notice to announce the update of j2memap to V09.19. This contains mainly update for GoogleMap API, and some custom menus for better navigation. Let me know if you have an issue with version.
The library has been also updated, so for people who see “red squares” while using the library, please go to the developper web site and download it.
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Google just launched “MyMaps” addition to GoogleMap. Thanks to this, you can easily create your own custom maps. In term of user interface, you can feel the “google touch”: seems to be very basic, but in fact it’s one of the most complete custom map editor that I’ve seen: You can add custom points, with text (text can be rich text, there is a small embeeded HTML editor), empty of filled polygons, description can contains pictures, etc…
Nice features that are available:
and the latest one, which is in my view a killer feature, especially for many mashup:
This mean that by creating public map, the content of these map will be added in local search. Smart and simple idea….
Congratulation to the GoogleMap team for this very smart creation. I hope that next step are probably here:
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Found this through "Technomap blog", a spanish blog so I do not understand a single word. But it seems that Google add this incredible picture in Tchad, probably taken from a plane. Approximate resolutionis 2cm/pixel...See it at position 15.298683, 19.429651
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The forum was out of orders since three weeks due to some hosting problems with my providers….It’s back now, so enjoy, and happy posting….
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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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