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Mapping out the good things
By JBC on 02 October 2009
GLOBAL – There’s a new feature on Ovi Maps and its needs you to make it a brilliant one. Good Things is a way for Ovi Maps users to share their favourite places around the world. Already there’s hundreds of places been added with hundreds more being added every day. What’s more, it’s dead easy, too.
Once you’ve installed the latest Ovi Maps browser plugin Good Things will appear as an extra tab alongside “find places”, “favourites” and “routing”.
It’s made up of three key elements. The first is the ability to spot Good Things on the map, where you can click on each one to find out more information, add it to a route or to your favourites. There’s also a live Good Things feed which shows the latest good things, as they’re added. And of course the key part is the ability for you to add your own Good Things. Once you’ve found where on the map you’d like to add, you just drag a Good Things pin onto the map to add it. Fill in a couple of details, walk through the security check and you’re good to go. You’ve made the mapped world a better place.
Of course, the more people do this, the better it gets. And, given that the service has only just started, I’m pretty sure that like everything else that happens in Ovi it’ll rapidly evolve and improve.
Later this month a new campaign will kick off in London, with tower cranes playing host to giant signposts. The idea being (it seems) that the signposts will show off the latest Good Things being added by users. This should help spur people into action and help us all get more from Ovi Maps.
You can check out Good Things on the Ovi Maps site and see more about the campaign on Nokia.com.
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Tags | Good Things, Ovi Maps
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Guys, is there a published feed of goodstuff that can be consumed?
Could be handy in a widget…
Cheers,
Dave
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October 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
This could be a great idea, but what is the use if the underlying GPS system on the phone just doesn’t work??
For example, I am a customer ready to pay top $ at launch for the N97, I’m also ready to pay for the turn by turn navigation subscription, but I thought I’d better try it out for a month 1st. What happens, 50% of the time my phone cannot get a sat. lock on my position. Needless to say I won’t be paying the annual subscription for such an unreliable system.
I know, maybe my phone is faulty, send it to NRC for repair – but judging by the boards I’m not the only one with these issues. This to me is like having a car and not knowing if the tyres will have air in them in the morning – fairly useless and some might say better not to have that car at all, at least you’d know to leave enough time to take public transport.
So it’s great that Nokia are developing these new services, but how are the users to enjoy them if the hardware they rely on is defective?. That is the question to be answered by Nokia if they want customers to pay for the services.
Derek.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 am
Nokia needs to change a very basic thing either in Nokia maps or their S60/Maemo UI. You know what?
Its the zoom buttons. In S60 and Maemo or any other browser/maps program, the + button is always at the top and – is at bottom, but Ovi Maps has the reverse order, which is stupid and confusing according to me.
Everytime, i click on – button first due to the natural habit of expecting + button at the top.
Wonder, why such a stupid implementation?
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October 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
Oh ya, they also don’t support Firefox on MAC. Isn’t that insane, that they are not supporting the most popular browser on MAC?
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October 9th, 2009 at 7:40 am
The plugin implementation of Ovi Maps is really a rubbish. It is hard to find combination of OS and browser which really works
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