Locify (http://www.locify.com) - open framework for creation of  location enhanced services - releases new version with maps and routes  support. Experimental support for maps from previous version was fine- tuned and currently users can explore their location or selected  waypoints (and newly routes) on Google maps, Yahoo maps, Microsoft  maps or OpenStreetMaps. Locify supports all map providers with  mapserver or compatible map serving system.

Developers can make use of maps very easy - the same way as other functions on Locify - just by xhtml coding.

Changes from previous version:
* Offline Route Recording
* Routes management, service can send a route
* Navigation along the route
* Viewing route on the maps
* Map UI improvements - scale, better zooming, stylus support
* New possibilities for developers
* More user-friendly installation for Windows Mobile
* Better support for BlackBerry
* New services: Zvents, Upcoming

In the pipeline for the next release is offline map support. Our aim is to be compatible with most of the currently available custom maps created by various different tools.

Note: Locify is written in Java - it gives it broadest phone support on the market.

More about Locify:

Locify (http://www.locify.com) develops framework for location based services (LBS). Locify consists of mobile client application, open application directory and supporting server side tools.

Locify is straightforward for the users: one install (free), service discovery of existing location services and installation of them, using various methods for "localization" (GPS, address input, use of previously stored place), which giver opportunity not only to express "I am Here" but even "I am interested in There", and more.

Currently a bunch of services are available: search nearby places from Wikipedia, events from Eventful, Zvents or Upcoming, seek for geocaches in the neighborhood, update their status on twitter or Fireeagle, display nearby photos from Panoramio and more.

Creation of mobile service enhanced by location is with Locify as easy as writing web pages. Developers can use in their web applications a lot of extended function nearly without coding: online maps (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Openstreetmaps), geocoding, navigation and route recording between others. And existing mobile sites can add location features virtually within seconds and transparently to usual browsers (see short presentation about it on http://www.locify.com/documentation/example-videos ).

Developing application for Locify is free, the same as submitting application to the Locify open application directory. This directory is searchable from Locify mobile client and user can immediately add selected application to Locify client dashboard.

Locify mobile client is written in Java. That gives Locify one of the broadest phone support on the market - it works not only on the smartphones (Symbian, UIQ and Windows Mobile) but on the usual phones. Locify can be used with built-in GPS, GPS module connected to the phone or without GPS at all (use has to specify his location by address or selecting one of the stored places).

Locify is free for users and developers. Locify offers customization and branding for various types of clients (operators, portals, media companies etc.)