Joe’s story: Ovi Maps offline on a helicopter

Yesterday we kicked off the Ovi Maps competition. You can win great Nokia GPS phones by creating a story about how you use Ovi Maps and tweeting it to @OvibyNokia. Read the full blog post here. Here’s our first Ovi Maps story with Joe, the product manager for the map data in Ovi Maps: Joe is passionate [...]

Yesterday we kicked off the Ovi Maps competition. You can win great Nokia GPS phones by creating a story about how you use Ovi Maps and tweeting it to @OvibyNokia. Read the full blog post here.

Here’s our first Ovi Maps story with Joe, the product manager for the map data in Ovi Maps:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Joe is passionate about cartography and flying. He took a helicopter tour of Berlin and tracked the helicopter’s GPS position with Ovi Maps on his Nokia N97 in offline mode. Before getting on the helicopter he used Nokia Map Loader to preload the map of Berlin and Brandenburg on his phone.

You can preload the latest maps on your Nokia GPS phone with Map Loader for free and the following services will work also offline:

• My position,
• Find places,
• Drive navigation,
• Walk navigation,
• Favourites.

When you go online you can get live traffic information in over 10 countries for Drive navigation. Online you can also check Weather forecasts, Events around your location and Lonely Planet & Michelin guides for over 1000 destinationsand Share your location with friends on Facebook.

Get the latest Ovi Maps for your Nokia at http://nokia.com/maps.

Create your Ovi Maps story and win great Nokia GPS phones

The Ovi Maps competition is running from March 22nd 1pm GMT until April 19th 1pm GMT.

Create an Ovi Maps story and share it the way you prefer:

• Record a video and share it via YouTube, Vimeo, Qik or any other video service of your choice;
• Take pictures, upload them on Facebook and create your story with our Facebook application. You can also upload them on Flickr, Twitpic or any other service of your choice.
• Or write a blog post.

To enter the competition, tweet the link to your story to @OvibyNokia on Twitter with the hash tag #OviMaps.

Each week we will announce a winner. You can win one of the following Nokia GPS smartphones:

• Nokia N97 mini with the latest Ovi Maps v 3.03, a car holder and a car charger; or
• Nokia X6 with the latest Ovi Maps v 3.03, a car holder and a car charger; or
• Nokia E72 with the latest Ovi Maps v 3.03, a car holder and a car charger.

The first winner will be announced on March 30^th 2010.
Follow @OvibyNokia on Twitter for the latest updates. For the greatest fans and enthusiasts we have awesome Ovi Maps swag.

Spread the word and watch this space!

Source : http://blog.ovi.com/2010/03/23/joes-story-ovi-maps...