How to convert coordinates to a map location

[ashraf fawzy]

Hi all,

I want to convert the co-ordinates I get from GPS enabled device into a link refers to a location on a map to one of the popular maps providers ( OVI - Google ), so user can click this link and its browser jump to this location on the map.


Best Regards.

[wizard_hu_]

It is doubtful that any kind of conversion would be necessary.

[symbianyucca]

Yep, no conversion required. You can use the coordinates directly for making putting a marker into the map, as well as you can use the same location for moving the map center there.

[ashraf fawzy]

Thank you for your response,

What I meant is, rather than sending the coordinates in a message and who receives it starts to enter these coordinates manually in OVI Map - as example - so he can see where I am;
I want to send him in the message a link to my coordinates, and when he clicks this link, it opens his browser to my location on a google / ovi map.

You can see this style in some application that used in emergency situations, or a stolen mobile.


Best Regards

[symbianyucca]

easiest way on achieving that would be to use the Map rendering API: https://projects.developer.nokia.com...psrenderingapi

or if you have your own server, you could use URL arguments to specify the location and make the logic yourself.

[jasfox]

The Ovi Map Rendering API has been moved out of projects, and renamed to the Nokia Map Image API. Here is the current link http://www.developer.nokia.com/Devel.../Map_Image_API

Displaying the coordinates of a location is a basic use case for this API, the syntax would be something like:
http://m.nokia.me/?c=52.531,13.3845