Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth) and Ask.com Maps and satellite imagery on Symbian and Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use internal GPS features on some phones in order to automatically display the map for your current position.

* GPS connectivity: connect to a GPS device over bluetooth or use the internal GPS to view maps or aerial imagery for your current location. Enable GPS synchronization to continuously move the map as you move around, view your position, speed and heading.
* Search for places or businesses, view the results including addresses and phone numbers. Do you want to call any of them? You can do that directly from Mobile GMaps!
* Bookmarks: store your favorite places or search results to jump quickly to any of them.
* Maps and satellite imagery: view various types of maps and aerial images, zoom in and out, mark favorite places with map pushpins.

MGMaps v1.27.00 - Subway Maps (August 14th, 2006)

New in this version:

* Mobile GMaps can now display subway maps for New York City (onNYTurf), London (TubeJP) and Berlin (Uberbahn)! To enable this feature, go to Services/Subway Maps, then zoom in or search for the desired city to see the maps. Unfortunately the map tiles are provided as GIF images instead of PNG and many phones cannot display them, but this will be fixed very soon.
* Other minor changes (title bar in full-screen mode, powered-by message, bug fixes)

MGMaps v1.26.06 (August 9th, 2006)

MGMaps v1.26.06 is out, with the following changes:

* Full-screen mode is enabled by default (if available) when the application is first started. If you have upgraded from an older version of MGMaps, you can press 8 to turn full-screen on.
* You can press the left or right softkey to show/hide the main menu when in full-screen mode.
* Some bluetooth GPS tweaks and bug-fixes are included.
* Motorola internal GPS support was removed and will be re-added when it is fully functional.

v1.26.05 - GPS code updates (July 20th, 2006)

v1.26.05 is out with the following new features:

* A GPS activity icon is displayed in the upper part of the screen whenever there is a GPS device selected in the settings. The meaning of the GPS icon color is explained in the documentation. You can disable this icon by unchecking the corresponding options in the Settings/Screen form.
* The altitude reported by the GPS device is displayed together with the position, speed and heading when GPS auto-sync is enabled.
* Bluetooth & Location API override advanced settings were removed, they were causing some phones to stop responding.
* Beta support for Motorola AGPS — the application adds support for the AGPS features on Motorola A920, A1000, E1000 and other phones that include the Motorola location API. This is in BETA phase and requires you to "unlock" the phone using 3rd party software to allow MGMaps to access the GPS API, as described in this forum thread.
* Some problems were fixed in the GPS code, image handling code, saving/restoring settings and in some other places.

v1.26.04 displays coords, speed and heading (July 12th, 2006)

MGMaps v1.26.04 is out, with the following changes:

* The position of the map (latitude, longitude, zoom level for the center of the map) can now be displayed in the lower-right part of the screen, if Settings/Screen/Default Overlays/Position is checked. When GPS Sync is active, the latitude, longitude, speed and heading received from the GPS are displayed instead. To differentiate between these two cases, the text "GPS" appears whenever the GPS position is displayed instead of the map position (they are not identical if GPS Sync is set to Marker).
* The maps were updated to display the latest version of Google Maps satellite imagery.
* Other minor updates were made to the scale and the bluetooth GPS code.

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v1.26.02 - fixes GPS delay problems (July 5th, 2006)

MGMaps v1.26.02 includes an option in Settings/Advanced to enable/disable the GPS workaround for Nokia 6620/6630/7610 phones. If you have such a phone and if MGMaps crashes as soon as it connects to the GPS, you should enable this option, although it may introduce some delays when GPS Sync is enabled. Leave this option disabled if you have any other phone.
MGMaps v1.26.01 is out (July 4th, 2006)

MGMaps version 1.26.01 is out and brings the following fixes and improvements:

* The scale can now be displayed in U.S. units (miles or feet), by selecting the corresponding option in Settings/Screen. This was also added to MGMaps version 1.19.16 that was released today.
* An icon is displayed in the upper right corner indicating internet activity whenever a map image is downloaded. This icon can be disabled by unchecking Settings / Screen / Default Overlays / Network Activity.
* A new zoom level is available in Google Satellite imagery! It was there all the time, just waiting for me to discover it while playing with Google Earth and noticing some high-res images that were not available in Google Maps. This update makes Mobile GMaps display satellite images up to 4 times the max resolution available in the Google Maps web interface. These images (3 inches per pixel) are available only for some places like Cambridge, MA but also some parts of Europe.
* The Update option was removed from the Update Check screen — users must exit MGMaps before updating, there's no sense in keeping this option.
* The Settings/Overlay options were merged to Settings/Screen, it makes more sense to have them here.
* A networking bug was fixed, it present in MGMaps v1.1x and v1.2x, and was causing some phones (like the Motorola i860) not to download map images at all.
* Some GPS problems introduced with v1.26.00 were hopefully fixed.
* Other minor bugs were fixed.

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v1.26 - One Year of MGMaps (June 30th, 2006)

Mobile GMaps is one! MGMaps v1.0 was announced on June 30th 2005. A year later, version 1.26 brings the following news:

* The map scale is finally displayed on the screen. Currently only metric units are supported, support for U.S. units (miles/feets) will be added soon. The scale can be enabled or disabled in the Settings/Overlays screen.
* The GPS Sync option now allows you to display a marker at the current position reported by the GPS device, instead of moving the map as your position changes. This is configured in the Settings/GPS screen that can also be displayed by pressing the extended key sequence 9 - 2. When GPS Sync is set to Marker, you can still move the map to your current position by selecting GPS - Where Am I in the services menu.
* You can now check for MGMaps updates by selecting this option in the Help menu. If an updated version is found, exit MGMaps and visit the WAP site to download a newer version. You also have the option to open the WAP site directly from MGMaps, but the update will not work if the phone leaves MGMaps running in the background when it opens the WAP browser.
* The search features are now based on Google's KML output format, this reduces the bandwidth used by the searches and makes them about 10 times faster than before.
* Some bugs with the GPS selection window were fixed, but it's still recommended that you select the GPS device while viewing the maps, not in the welcome screen.

Together with v1.26, a new v1.1x version is out for those of you that do not use MGMaps v1.2x for various reasons. Version 1.19.15 includes the scale and the search speed improvements from v1.26.
Network Outages (June 25th, 2006)

The MGMaps server has experienced some serious network outages in the past 24 hours, and they don't seem to be over yet. I'm currently looking to move MGMaps to another server, if you want to recommend a good hosting provider with reasonable pricing drop me a message using the feedback form.
v1.25.08 - Updated high-res satellite imagery (June 21st, 2006)

Google has finally updated Maps to include the high-res satellite imagery present in Google Earth 4. The maximum resolution was not increased, but high-res images are viewable for many parts of the world where they were not previously available. Get the latest version of MGMaps (v1.19.14 or v1.25.08) for the mobile experience!
v1.25.07 - "Call" option included in Search Results (June 19th, 2006)

Version 1.25.07 of MGMaps adds the following features:

* You can now call phone numbers in search results. To do that, perform a search (for example "hotels" in "new york"), select one of the results and then choose Call in the menu, or choose View Info and then Call. You will be able to edit a phone number before it is dialled. (Google's search results don't include country codes.)
* There's an option in Settings/Screen to keep the backlight of the phone display always on. This feature is useful if the backlight keeps turning off after a few seconds and the maps have not yet loaded, but it is broken on several phones including my Nokia 6600.
* The application is more responsive when several markers are displayed on the screen.
* Some search problems were fixed in v1.25.06 and 1.19.13, if you have an older version upgrade to the latest one for searches to work correctly.