gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0. released

16 September 2010, 12:17pm

The gvSIG Mini development team is proud to announce the release of the stable version gvSIG Mini for Android 1.0.

This version offers, among other features, the ability of a direct download of maps from the phone to the storage card, for a further map displaying in offline mode, with no data connection.

gvSIG Mini is a free viewer of free access maps based on tiles (OpenStreetMap, YahooMaps, Microsoft Bing, ...), with an off-line
mode, a WMS & WMS-C client, address and POI search, routes and many more things.

gvSIG Mini is an open source project (GNU/GPL) aimed at Java and Android mobile phones. Released version is 1.0.0 for Android.

Main latest features of 1.0.0 version are the following ones:

* Map download directly from the mobile phone, for off-line usage.

* Off-line mode for viewing maps with no data connection.

* Multitouch support.

* New map rendering system, much more agile.

* Standard Android search button support.

* New layers available by default.

* UK Ordnance Survey official maps (rendered by OS).

* Settings menu with many options.

* New cache options.

* Android 2.2 support (now from 1.5 to 2.2).

More than 20 bugs have also been fixed.

Also available at Android Market.

gvSIG Mini has been developed by Prodevelop.

More information at the links below.

gvSIG Mini website

Press release

Video on YouTube

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