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. BlackBerry Maps uses latitudinal and longitudinal integer values that are 100,000 times the double values specified by JSR 179 which uses WGS 84 specifications for the longitudinal and latitudinal values.

To create a BlackBerry device application that uses BlackBerry Maps, you can use the MapArguments class in the net.rim.blackberry.api.invoke package.

A BlackBerry device application can interact with BlackBerry Maps in the following ways:

• start BlackBerry Maps from a BlackBerry device application
• add a menu item to BlackBerry Maps that opens a BlackBerry device application

BlackBerry Maps is included on BlackBerry devices that are running BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.2 or later.

• Opening BlackBerry Maps
  
• Opening BlackBerry Maps from an application
  
• Displaying location information on a BlackBerry device
  
• Displaying location information in a UI field
  
• Requesting location information for an address
  
• Open BlackBerry Maps from a browser
  
• Clearing data from the map