Maps for Amazon Kindle Fire


Google finds the term "Amazon Maps" maps especially in the Amazon, but for the owner of a Kindle Fire, the term may soon also be a mapping service of the manufacturer Amazon. This has quietly signed an agreement with Nokia to use its card services can, as Reuters reported in late August, citing inaugurated circles.

Now the next, very specific reference to Amazon's intentions come to light: The Kindle Developer Portal, a new Maps API Amazon has emerged, which can be taught about the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD mapping functions. Although the API is currently open only handpicked developers - you can apply for this release on the web.

But Amazon now openly declared that API should pave an easy migration path for developers who already use the Google Maps API in Android. This is to the Kindle tablet can render both interactive maps and customized overlays, for example, with business locations in default map or as a satellite image.

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