What is 8Motions about?

8Motions is mainly focused on mobile, providing you a great client for your mobile phone to get access to maps.
This client can be downloaded from this website, but using this site, you can also manage and creat maps and mapz.
From this client, you can:

• View and browse the entire world
• Be located through an internal or an external GPS
• Create geolocalized pictures, and upload them to your Flickr account
• Set "Maps", and download them on your mobile
• Create Mapping Widget, called "Mapz", and download your or others on your mobile. See the list of Mapz to have a btter view on the possibilite
• See where are your friends
• View KML files on your mobile (access to unlimited number of existing geolocalized data)
• Create your own KML file, and upload them to the server

All these feature are available on your mobile. The web site (this site) is here to help you to manage the client. The mobile and the server are synchronized. So you can add/remove your bookmarked point from the web site, create new maps, from here, and download them on your mobile.

1. Operation
1. Basic
2. GPS connection
3. Supported handsets
4. Map
5. Mapz widgets

Operation

GPS connection

Supported handsets

Map

A map is a collection of points. Each is located somewhere in the world, and could have several properties, like a description, a phone number, ....
Using the web, you can create new "map", and add point to these map. A map could be related to a single topic, like "Paris restaurant", or to something more personnal, like "Meeting in San Francisco". It's usually better to group point in a map by area of interest.
You can choose to share a map with others. In that case, your map will be visible by everyone. Somebody else then might be interested by your nice "Paris Restaurants", and be notified when a new point is added into that map.

Mapz

Mapz are powerfull extension to a map:
- They could be as simple as a KML file to be displayed
- They can be as complex as a full program