Ovi Maps

Ovi Maps (Ovi meaning "a door" in Finnish) is a free mapping product and service by Nokia for its mobile phones and smartphone multimedia devices.

The Nokia Maps product 'Smart2Go', later renamed Nokia Maps and now Ovi Maps, initially came into existence, after Nokia made the smart2go application free to download, when in August 2006 it acquired the German route planning software company Gate5.[3][4][5][6][7] Nokia Maps was expanded later, when Nokia acquired Chicago, Illinois based, digital map supplier NAVTEQ Corp. to build further on their smart2go mapping application.[8][9][10][11] Maps is part of the Ovi brand of Nokia's Internet based online services. Ovi Maps provides offline maps, eliminating the need for a constant internet data feed.

On January 22, Nokia released a new version of Ovi Maps that allowed free turn-by-turn navigation for cellphones with an embedded GPS. Previously, users had to pay for a yearly license. Nokia Ovi Maps have currently 27 million users, which is expected to double.

Features :

The latest version of Ovi Maps includes:

* Driving and walking turn-by-turn directions in 74 countries
* Real-time traffic information in 10 countries
* Maps for 180 total countries around the globe
* Support for 46 different languages
* Text-to-speech notifications
* 6,000 3D points of interest
* Third-party content such as ViaMichelin and Lonely Planet
* Location-aware social networking
* maps can be preloaded
* Weather service