Virtual Earth Mobile...

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This may be old news to some but I just ran across this and have it running
on my iPAQ 5555

http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ashx

From their web site...

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"Virtual Earth Mobile (VEM) is an application for Pocket PC 2003, Smartphone
2003, and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices that displays maps and satellite
photography, and locates businesses by name or category within a
geographical area. The data is downloaded from the MSN Virtual Earth servers
that power http://virtualearth.msn.com. Unlike many other mapping programs,
the map data is not preloaded onto the device; it is downloaded on demand.
The disadvanatge to this is that an internet connection is required. The
advantage is that you do not need to decide what maps to preload, and you
need very little storage space. VEM will cache map data as you view it,
which improves performance, and allows you to view cached maps when you do
not have an internet connection.
The Virtual Earth servers contain detailed images only for the United States
at the moment, though I expect that to change over time.

VEM is not digitally signed, therefore if you have a Smartphone that does
not allow unsigned applications to run (for example, the Pantech PT-S800,
Sprint i600 or Sprint i930), it will not run."

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As always...YMMV...


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