[Symbian]GpsMid v0.4.51+v.0.6 J2ME -free, fully offline, vector based map application

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GpsMid v0.4.51 J2ME -free, fully offline, vector based map application

GpsMid is a free, fully offline, vector based map application for your mobile phone. It displays your current position on a zoomable map and can be used to search for and navigate to roads or points of interest of your liking. As all data is stored in a compact binary format on your phone you will incur no charges for extra data downloads.

GpsMid uses map data by OpenStreetMap, a wiki based open source map. Yes, the world is not really complete yet, but in an increasing number of areas it is starting to be comparable to, if not greatly exceeding, the level of detail found on other commercial maps.

Currently supported features:

* Vector rendering of the roads, areas and points of interest
* Displaying the map either north on top or in the direction of driving
* Centering the map to a position received from your GPS:
o NMEA GPS-unit with bluetooth connection.
o Devices with built-in JSR179 compatible location provider
* Zooming in and out to arbitrary levels of detail.
* Displaying the name of the street you are on and the maximum speed you may travel.
* Searching for a name (street, city or POI) and jumping to it on the map
* Searching for close by points of interest
* Calculating a route to a target street and navigate to it with voice guidance
* Adding and deleting of waypoints to the map
* Recording and displaying of track logs
* Importing and exporting track logs and waypoints to and from GPX
* Taking geotagged photos with your mobile
* Fully customizing which OSM features are used in GpsMid and how you want your map to look

Features in development

* Usability improvements
* Further improvement to the routing algorithm
* Simple OpenStreetMap editing support on the go.

Limitations

Although GpsMid aims to run on as many devices as possible, due to the large variety of handsets and the sever resource limitations of some of the older mid-range phones, unfortunately not everything works equally well everywhere.

* Limited memory: Some phones have very limited memory, such as the Motorola Razr V3 series. On these it may not be possible to zoom out fully without exceeding available memory. Midlets of about 3Mb size should be fine though, at least when zoomed in.
* Maximum jar size: Some phones, such as earlier S40 phones of Nokia, restrict the maximum size of a jar file they will accept. As GpsMid bundles the map data into the jar, this may limit the area one can incorporate into a single midlet. Experimental support of storing the data on the file system has been added in version 0.4.0 to overcome this.
* Permissions: Java 2 ME unfortunately has often a DRM policy, which only allows signed midlets to access certain phone features used in GpsMid. As an open source project, and with the data bundled into the jar, we however cannot offer signed versions of GpsMid at this moment.