Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps and MSN Virtual Earth maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.
Mobile GMaps is distributed under the Attribution/NonCommercial/NoDerivs Creative Commons license. You may download, use and distribute the application free of charge for non-commercial purposes. You may NOT use it for any commercial purpose.
Before you download and install Mobile GMaps, make sure you have support for:
J2ME (Java) on your phone — MGMaps runs on devices that support CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0 or later. The vast majority of GSM phones sold in the last three years support Java/J2ME, so unless you are using an antique phone, this shouldn't be an issue. If you are not sure, you can check here and here (warning: the list may be incomplete).
Web access from Java programs running on your phone — the java program must be able to access the web in order to download map and satellite tiles. While the MIDP 1.0 standard does require HTTP support, some of the phones that only support WAP (and not regular Internet) rewrite requests and you might need to configure a proxy (Samsung X450 is such a phone)... For more information, see the documentation section and the section about proxy configuration in the FAQ.
Internet or WAP enabled with your carrier provider — WAP access is usually cheaper but does not work for some phone/provider combinations. For optimum performance, a broadband connection, like EDGE or 3G (WCDMA) is recommended. See the configuration section for more info.
Download and Install
Installation instructions:
Visit the WAP site from your mobile phone. This is the recommended way of installing Mobile GMaps.
If the above does not work for some reason (e.g. your phone does not support WAP 2.0), you will have to take the longer path. You'll have to download the JAD and JAR file(s) on your computer, upload them to your phone (using bluetooth, infrared, or serial/USB cable), then install the application. This may not work for some phones that only allow J2ME installations over WAP.
If the installation is successful, you should find MGMaps in the list of installed Java applications for most phones, in the main menu for Symbian phones, or in the "Java Games" menu for some Samsung phones. You should read the Getting started section before starting to use the program
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