Revision as of 14:46, 23 March 2007

Weybridge/UK example map	NYC subway map
Political world map	Political world map
Sheffield Supertram map	Public transportation in Munich
	An image created by NASA's Visible Earth project

Maps for J2ME mobile phones

You can download some interactive maps for mobile phones with J2ME/MIDP (Java 2 Micro Edition) as JAR files. If you want to download the file using GPRS you have to use the link to the JAD file instead. Please refer to your mobile-phone's manual on how to install Java programs. E-mail me, if you find a bug in the software.

To compile and emulate the software on your PC, you need to download the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Wireless Toolkit.

The size of each software package is mentioned. Note, that temporarily you will need twice as much memory on your mobile, because the JAR-file will only be deleted after installation. You can put comments and submit ratings at getjar.com.

Weybridge/UK map

The map was taken from openstreetmap.org (License: GFDL).

• MobiNav.jar (191 kByte) Java archive
• MobiNav.jad description file
• MobiNav.tar.gz (176 kByte) source code and map-tiles (license: GPL)
• splitmap.tar.bz2 (1912 bytes) source code of GNU/Linux program for splitting up an input file into map-tiles (requires Mimas-2.0). Note, that you need to provide map-tiles for several resolutions (multiresolution pyramid). Therefore you also need a program for scaling images (you can use the command-line tool convert, which is part of ImageMagick)!

Political world map

The map was taken from the The World Factbook (License: public domain).

• WorldMap.jar (1370 kByte)
• WorldMap.jad

Visible Earth

The picture was taken from the Visible Earth project (License: public domain).

• VEarth.jar (1314 kByte)
• VEarth.jad

Munich public transportation map

The map was taken from de.wikipedia.org (License: GFDL).

• VerkehrsnetzMuenchen.jar (472 kByte)
• VerkehrsnetzMuenchen.jad

New York City Subway Map

This NYC subway map originated from www.nycsubway.org (License: public domain).

• NYCSub.jar (1657 kByte)
• NYCSub.jad

Sheffield Supertram map

The map was taken from en.wikipedia.org (License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Canada)

• Supertram.jar (67 kByte)
• Supertram.jad

Further ideas

• Sky atlas
• Lunar atlas

External Links

• Maps for mobile phones at www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk
• J2ME SDK
• Free streetmaps for mobile phones
• Download subway maps for iPods
• Openstreetmap project
• Openmap software
• German motorways (copyrighted)
• This software and other mobile phone applications at getjar.com
  • VerkehrsnetzMuenchen
  • Shopping List
  • FirstPastThePost is a horce-racing game
  • Compass gives the position of sun and moon to determine true north
  • London street map developed by JTrustN
• J2ME open source software
• Yoda decision maker
• Bomber for J2ME
• Moon phase calculator for mobile phones
• Eclipse Calculator
• Solun'-u is a small planetarium (don't confuse sun and moon, they're both yellow)
• Compare mobile phones at gsmarena.com
• NASA's Visible Earth project
• benhui.net has some interesting information on how to use Bluetooth
• Tiger Map Server Browser