Start BlackBerry Maps from a BlackBerry device application.

You can create a BlackBerry device application that can start BlackBerry Maps and display information. You place location information in a String variable that is called a location document. You invoke net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.Invoke.invokeApplication() using as parameters the net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.Invoke.APP_TYPE_MAPs constant and a new instance of a net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.MapsArguments object created using the net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke.MapsArguments. ARG_LOCATION_DOCUMENT constant and the String variable with the location information. BlackBerry Maps starts and displays the information in the location document.

Open BlackBerry Maps from the BlackBerry Browser.

You can permit a BlackBerry device user to use the browser on a BlackBerry device to access location information on a web server and display the information in BlackBerry Maps. You create a file with the extension .xloc and place location information in the file. The location information is the same information that you assign to the location document to start BlackBerry Maps from a BlackBerry device application. You place the .xloc file on a web server. When a BlackBerry device user accesses the link for the .xloc file, for example http://servername/Filename.xloc, the browser passes the .xloc file as a String to the location document parser. BlackBerry Maps starts and displays the information in the .xloc file.