You can create a BlackBerry® device application that interacts with BlackBerry® Maps. BlackBerry Maps is a map and location application that can display a map, the location of the BlackBerry device, a route from a starting location to a specific ending location, and points of interest on a map.

Your application can interact with BlackBerry Maps in the following ways:

• Open BlackBerry Maps from your BlackBerry device application.
• Display KML overlays on BlackBerry Maps.
• Open BlackBerry Maps from the BlackBerry Browser.
• Embed a map in your BlackBerry device application.

BlackBerry Maps can be installed on BlackBerry devices that are running BlackBerry® Device Software 4.2 or later.

You can use the MapsArguments class in the net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke package to create a BlackBerry device application that interacts with BlackBerry Maps.

• Opening BlackBerry Maps from your application
  
• Open BlackBerry Maps by using the default settings
  
• Open BlackBerry Maps by using information from a contact
  
• Open BlackBerry Maps by using specific coordinates
  
• Open BlackBerry Maps by using a landmark
  
• Opening BlackBerry Maps by using a location document
  
• Open BlackBerry Maps by using a local search
  
• Using KML documents with BlackBerry Maps
  
• Opening BlackBerry Maps from the BlackBerry Browser
  
• Retrieving a GPS location by using a web page
  
• Retrieve a GPS location by using a web page
  
• Embedding a map in an application