It took me half an hour, OMG, how to creat landmark on Ovi maps, 1.01 (after PR1.1), with internet connection

Right lower corner arrow>Places>any business (for e.g. pizza city state) and click the icon i > return to your map. You just created a POI/landmark of that place, it stays even if you close and reopen Ovi maps

Yes, works only with business with the icon 'i'.

To create a landmark of your home address?
1) use the above method ONLY if you home address is a business
2) find any business, restaurant or anything next to your home, and mark it. DUH, you just created a landmark for your home address

Pic posted: click the blue icon will create a POI/landmark that Ovi maps will remember for the next time.

Watch: I have yet to figure out how to delete them, so, dont create too much till you find a way to remove them. Yike!

Who said Ovi maps is useless.


bun

I want some pho

That is a very good one, you come on over, I will buy you one, how about that. Another good one is in atlanta georgia, make me salivate!

bun

I live too far from GA ... btw what is the advantage of installing the maps? besides offline navigation?

1) World map is all with you, preloaded in your N900, do what you want. Say cant go to hochiming city for pho, you can always look at it and salivate with your eyes closed, just an example.

2) Planning between trips, again, the whole world map is in your N900, offline planning is convenient

3) Online search for some "pho" in a new city, say charlotte NC when drive by, just to check how much detour I have to go in order to get there before the restaurant closed, sure it comes with phone number that you can call and plead "I am only 5 miles from your restaurant and we are very hungry, my little kid would go banana without some "pho" tonight, please ... we will try to get there very fast." It happens to me for every single trip!

4) Locate yourself and orientation as well as tracking. This N900 does very well.

5) Need to go to a wedding in IOWA a couple month from now, has NO squat idea which airport to take....

Sure, you can always argue to do this with your 2 lb netbook or something like that, but you can beat a N900 sitting at the back of a car/plane with only so much space without bumping into your neighbor's ?

number 3) is my MUST HAVE and tracking on hiking is also a fascinating experience. Would you agree?

bun

not work for me, I must upgrade maps by hand

okie so i downloaded the voice plus the update map.. what is next? how r u going to use the voice n how do u know whether da new map is aldy installed..

Not working on Windows 7 (32 bit). Not even in compatibility mode. Installation on Windows XP (32 bit) was fast and trouble-free though.

You should be able to "navigate" around without any internet connection if you already have the appropriate maps installed, however, voice navigation on ovi map is still not available for n900, so it's pretty much useless at the moment.

is it possible to make it work by using virtual box on a linux 64 bit machine?
has anyone tried that?