Java Development

[dhvani]

 how to use Google maps instead of Blackberry maps in blackberry application developement.

If u have any idea about this pls share with me.

[simon_hain]

you can show a location in googlemaps, see http://www.blackberryforums.com/developer-forum/143263-heres-how-start-google-maps-landmark.html

more complex tasks, however, did not succeed yet as far as i know. you'd have to know the google apps start parameters for more information about it.

[Eugen]

I think you will find a lot of posts according to the "Google Maps" topic.

Extra: Google Maps don't have any public API and you can invoke them with a specific XML to show only one location on them (it's not documented feature and was discovered after reverse engineering).

[davidmccormack · Accepted solution]

Oh but there is an official public API to show a particular location, placemarks, etc. - it's the Google Static Maps API:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

It's very easy to use. You simply format a URL, request it, and you get back a PNG image that you can display in your app. One legal issue to be aware of is that you are only supposed to use images generated in this way in a web page.

[raquibulbari]

How to make a google map client on my own with landmarkers etc.

[simon_hain]

please make your own thread for your own question.
but to answer it nonetheless: there is no API, so you can't.