Google Maps now syncs starred items to your Symbian device
I like having multiple mapping solutions on my Nokia devices and everyone of mine has both Nokia’s Ovi Maps and Google Maps. As a father of three daughters involved in basketball and soccer I spend my time traveling around quite a bit finding fields and schools that I are new to me. I have used TeleNav clients in the past on my Windows Mobile devices to designate destinations for the month well in advance of travel and I understand you can do this with Ovi Maps as well. I was pleased to read on the Google blog that Google Maps 3.3.1 for Symbian now has the ability to keep starred items in sync with your Google account. I now plan to put these destinations into a starred items list on my Mac and let Google sync them to any Nokia device I have running Google Maps.
Simply visit m.google.com/maps from the browser on your Symbian device to download and install the latest client. It is pretty amazing how helpful and feature packed Google can make their Maps client for free. I still use Ovi Maps for trips when I know I will be outside a coverage area since offline navigation works well in this case.
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Another cool feature in this version is that if you click a random point on the map, you’ll get a small preview of Street View and you can also see a list of a dozen or so nearby businesses.
One first install, it will import and Destinations stored in Ovi Maps.
December 6, 2009