This is a Midlet for use on any J2ME enabled device, primarly for mobile. It displays a simple map, with the actual position at the center. The map data is from OpenStreetMap, a wiki based opensource map. Yes the world is not realy complete yet, but in some of the larger cities and the USA coverage can be quite usable.
The MONDIAL database has been compiled from geographical Web data sources listed below:
* CIA World Factbook,
* a predecessor of Global Statistics which has been collected by Johan van der Heijden.
* additional textual sources for coordinates,
* the International Atlas by Kümmerly & Frey, Rand McNally, and Westermann,
* and some geographical data of the Karlsruhe TERRA database
The Java projection library is a partial port to Java of the popular PROJ.4 map projection library. Most of the common projections are implemented and the aim is to eventually support all the PROJ projections. This is a pure Java port and is not to be confused with the JNI bindings for PROJ.
The GIS branch intends to be a world-class geographic web framework. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to build GIS web applications and harness the power of spatially enabled data.