Samples of J2ME Mapping Lib SDK

1. Basic Mapper application shows following features:

• Show splash screen during startup
• Draw map on Canvas, using OpenStreetMap Mapnik tiles
• Map zooming and panning
• Search placenames and POI-s, using OpenStreetMap gazetteer service. Searches are made with condition "near map center".
• Show animated zoom level indicator during zoom
• Set custom cursor to map (Menu > Change cursor)
• Draw markers (places) to map, zoom out to see some
• Remove selected Places from map (Menu > remove places)
• Show log messages from library
• Go to another geographical location (Go to…)
• Define controls: Zoom in and Zoom out (#, * and softkey selections), and for map panning (numeric keys) for the Map Item
• Map Component resizing and repositioning on screen

2. Directions example shows following additional features:

• Note: use key 5 to define route start and end points
• Draw place markers for route endpoints
• Make on-line request to find route: Cloud Made and Yournavigation APIs can be selected. Both are based on OpenStreetMap data.
• Show line and turn points on map for the route.
• Customize line style (width, color)
• Base map is mobile map from Cloud Made

• Custom markers for places on map
• Shows custom style label for marker (move to the cursor to the map center to see the label)

4. Forms example:

• Create screen Form with Map Item as Custom Item
• Add a Place to the Form map
• Define numeric keys for moving on map
• Note that for map moving you have to focus map item on screen and use numeric keys for map panning, as arrows do not work with Custom Items.

5. Jar maps example:

• Read maps from application own package (jar file)
• This application runs completely off-line, on-line connection is not needed
• Useful for basic custom maps for small areas

6. KML Service example:

• Read placemarks from on-line data source: Panoramio images in KML format
• Read placemark icons on-line
• Note that placemark icons are cached by the library

8. Custom application using J2ME Polish:

• Application has flexibly customizable main menu
• Object listing using tree element of J2ME Polish
• Object listing and map markers are linked together

8. Custom application using LWUIT library:

• Application has general graphical main menu
• Embed map to LWUIT's screen
• Object listing element of LWUIT
• Object listing and map markers are linked together