Nokia is continuing to evolve the desktop version of its Ovi Maps service. The latest 'release' sees the ability to add 'Good Things' (user generated points of information - PoIs) to the map. The functionality is aimed at allowing you to share interesting locations with the world, be it the location of your favourite coffee shop of the venue for an upcoming gig. In order to see and to add your own Good Things you will need to upgrade to the latest version of the Ovi Maps browser plug-in (via Symbian-Guru).
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I have been completely unable to get to symbian-guru for the last week or so. I'm on a mac at home and neither safari or firefox will open it. "connection reset" message every time.
This week it won't open on IE at work either. page opens and then an immediate windows error message and IE window crashes. it is old IE though, 6 I think.
just tried my n85 as well. no luck. "unknown response" message.
Can anyone pass a message on to the guru? seems quite odd.
Cheers,
dj
Wow, Ovi Maps is working fully in Opera 10 (Mac at least). I followed the link from this article and wasn't asked to upgrade the plugin... and then I realized I wasn't in Safari, I was in Opera. Where I never installed a plugin because it's not even listed as a supported browser.
Either way, great news!
Thanks for that correction on PoIs.
Ovi Maps now provides a plug-in free basic version, but to get the full functionality (3D maps etc.) you will need to download the plug-in.
I spent several days involved in some Nokia market research a couple of weeks ago, one of the things that people wanted (on Ovi maps on the phone) was user POI's, I wonder if this was in the pipeline or if Nokia are very responsive to user feedback?
Also cross-browser compatibility was raised for the online bit too.
Maybe they are using the online maps as a test bed for these ideas?