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- Displaying location information in BlackBerry Maps
- Open BlackBerry Maps to display the default map view
- Open BlackBerry Maps to display a location on a map
- Open BlackBerry Maps to display multiple locations on a map
- Open BlackBerry Maps to display a route between locations on a map
- Open BlackBerry Maps to display a custom map view
- Open BlackBerry Maps to display the location for an address in the contact list
- Start a BlackBerry device application from BlackBerry Maps
- Displaying location information in a UI field
- Requesting location information for an address
- Open BlackBerry Maps from a browser
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GPS and BlackBerry Maps - Development Guide - BlackBerry Java Development Environment - 4.7.0
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- Create a file with the extension .xloc.
- Place the information that you would normally place in a location document in the .xloc file. The location document information is the same information that you assign to the String variable location document.
<lbs><location lon='-8052237' lat='4346518' label='Waterloo, ON' description='Waterloo' zoom='10'/></lbs>
- On a web server, place the .xloc file in the folder where you store .html files.
- Register the following MIME type with the web server: text/vnd.rim.location xloc.
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