I used to own an older Blackberry Curve which ran Google Maps fine, but I could never find any map application that used OSM data. They all either failed to install, or failed to start once installed, or just sat there without displaying the current location or any maps.
Today I got a new Blackberry 8900, so rather than install Google Maps on it, I decided to try again to find a mapping program that works. There are several that don't: - Cloudmade's blog led me to Nutiteq, who make a library for displaying maps on mobile devices. They have some demo applications including 'Nutiteq maps' but the download link for Blackberry is broken. They suggest that Blackberry users try out Trapster to see an example use of Nutiteq's library. Trapster alerts you to police speed traps. Not quite what I had in mind, but if it displays my current position on a map then it'll do. I installed it but found it uses Microsoft maps! - G'o <http://poco.org.uk/go> fails to start on the Blackberry with some kind of validation error (not related to digital signatures AFAICT). The same is true of 'minimom' from the same site. - There's nothing appropriate in the Blackberry App World. However, TMJ-Mobile <http://www.trackmyjourney.co.uk/> does it. It can display raster tiles (such as OSM Mapnik, or Cloudmade's tiles) or vector tiles (which save on bandwidth). Setting it up is a pain. Register on the website and then log in with the username you chose and the password mailed to you. Download the app to the phone; on the Blackberry you should also set its permissions so it has access to 'Location' and 'Internet'. Start it, agree to the terms and conditions, and then leave it in the open air to get a GPS fix. (If it can't get GPS data it reports latitude = longitude = 0, which is annoying.) You may have to fiddle around in the menu under 'GPS' to make it use the internal GPS. I also ticked 'Allow Costs (Assisted-GPS)' and 'Parse NMEA data if available', although I don't know if they make a difference. You also need to go to the 'Web' menu and do 'Enable Upload'. This enables the *download* of map tiles. (It might also turn on uploading your location to the TrackMyJourney website, which I haven't experimented with yet.) Press 6 to get to the map page. It will show a blank grid to start with. Then go to the menu again, Raster Map Menu, Map Source, Online. Choose the set of tiles you want. With luck, you'll now see spinning progress indicators on the map background, and in a few seconds, lovely Mapnik tiles on your Blackberry. I think I'll still use my Garmin GPS for recording tracks, since I presume it has better sensitivity than the Blackberry's builtin GPS, but I think you could use this app to record traces too. I haven't dug around to see if it lets you export GPX format. -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
