Guidebee Map API 2.1 Overview

Speaking of Map API, the Google map API and Bing Map API probably are the most popular ones available to developers, but they mainly work with web applications requires online network and for example it’s not very convenient to write applications on Java ME platform with Google Map and it’d be difficult to work with Bing Map on Android or iPhone devices.

Guidebee Map API supports all most every platform on the market, either desktop or mobile platforms and with consistent APIs; you can use more than 20 different map types includes Google Map, Bing Map, and Yahoo Map ,offline map and vector map with the same API package.

The following diagram shows the platforms Guidebee Map API supports. The API is provided as three different binaries to target all platforms.

• Java ME library MIDP/LWUIT/Blackberry
• Java SE library Android/Java SE
• .Net framework library Windows Mobile/Desktop/Windows Phone 7

  For Mac OS/iPhone/iPad (with support of Mono, MonoTouch )

 

Major features defined in Guidebee Map API are shown in following table:

Note: support for Mac OS, iPhone, iPad requires Mono, MonoTouch.


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