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Google Maps + Python for Series 60

Here's another interesting application built on Python for Series 60: Mobile Google Maps with GPS combines a Bluetooth GPS unit, a Nokia phone, and Google Maps to bring in map tiles based on one's current location. The app appears to be built using the 1.0 version of Python for Series 60, which didn't support direct graphics drawing and manipulation. (In the 1.0 release, you're actually embedding the system image viewer in your app.) However, with the latest build, you can scale and blit images directly to the screen, and bind key-up and key-down events coming from the d-pad to control the scrolling. Using this, it should be possible to extend this code to make something that tiles like Google Maps!

(via MAKE.)