Multilingual mobile mapping app targeted at foreigners

(left: Spanish; right: English)

If you are going to visit Japan soon, you will probably find it helpful to have a mapping application on your cellphone written in your native language instead of Japanese. Well, Shobunsha Publications together with Techno Planning developed a multilingual mapping application with maps covering Japan territory entirely, in order to help foreigners better navigate in Japan.

At the moment, the application is written in BREW1.3, thus limiting its use only to KDDI au BREW-compatible cellphones. And the number of languages is set to seven, including Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese, French, German, and Spanish.

Source: Shobunsha Publications via IT Media