8Motions blog

Aurel, posted a great trip of his holidays in Guadeloupe on 8Motions….Look at this:

Thanks to 8Motions, you can follow Aurelien path, and get all these great places on your mobile, for your next trip in Guadeloupe

You can even check his trip on Google Earth:

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.

Or at least, that’s what I read in my logs! . Expected price: 869€!

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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:

• View the map from KML
• Share/send the map to other

and the latest one, which is in my view a killer feature, especially for many mashup:

• The map content will be added in the search box for place!

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:

• integration with gelocalized picassa
• ability to automatically publish maps, instead of creating them manually

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This blog will be the “news channel” for J2ME Map, to avoid to separate more the content from my other blog ( http://blog.landspurg.net )