Hello everyone! It is me, Surya the maps lady here! We have an early Xmas present for you in the form of a new and improved maps.ovi.com site. Here is Will to tell us more about Maps for web.
What do you do in Nokia? What excites you about working here? I am the Product Owner for maps.ovi.com. I love my job because I love the web… I love the openness and the connectedness. I love that the internet gives everyone a voice and the power to create real change, and I love seeing the creativity behind the ways people use it. That’s why working on maps.ovi.com is so exciting…
What devices are you currently using? Do you remember your first phone? I am currently using the Nokia N8, which is great. The camera is especially amazing. My first phone was a Nokia 5110, which I got in 1999. I remember the first time I typed an SMS message, sent it, and then got one back a few minutes later. I remember thinking, “wow – I can’t believe that just worked!”
How do you use maps.ovi.com to help with your Maps experience? I use maps.ovi.com mostly when I’m at my computer and need to find an address or a telephone number of a place quickly. If I have to travel somewhere new in Berlin, I use maps.ovi.com to find the quickest way to get there, or the nearest line if I need to catch the bus, tram or underground. maps.ovi.com is also great to pre-plan a trip ahead of time. I recently took my motorbike through a week-long tour of the Alps. I used maps.ovi.com to plan and save each day’s route before I left, and then sync’d them all to my phone. When I was up in the Alps, I just needed to pull out the routes or places I had saved, and Ovi on my Nokia N8 took it from there!
How is the new maps.ovi.com different from the earlier version? With the latest version of maps.ovi.com we’ve made it easier to see where you are and get to the things around you quickly and easily. Positioning technology lets you put your actual current location right on the map, so you can see what’s around you quickly. (But don’t worry – your location is not visible to anyone else but you!)
You can switch on Public Transport lines in many cities around the world to see what public transport networks are available in your area.
We also make it easy and fun to share your experiences with the world – you can share the places you find with friends, or upload your own photos to places for everyone to see.
Use your current position as a default route starting point. This means you can have one click route creation! You can also see the most important or newest features previewed in the Feature Tour. You can also preview the maneuvers, one by one, on your route.
What is in the future for maps.ovi.com? There’s lots of exciting stuff coming in maps.ovi.com soon. In the future you’ll be able to do more with public transport, get better and more up-to-date directions, discover places and explore the world in a new and exciting realistic way…
Thank you Will for introducing the new maps.ovi.com to us! Please try out the site and let us know what you think about it here in the comments section. I will make sure that Will gets to see all of your responses
Source : http://blog.ovi.com/2010/12/07/discover-the-new-ma...