One of the cool thing about N95 is its GPS ability. Couple that with mapping application like Nokia Maps or Google Maps, it’s a killer. You know how far you are from your destination, you can roughly know where to alight from the bus, since you know your destination and you know exactly where you are. You don’t need to be afraid of getting lost (maybe not in Singapore, but certainly you can in Jakarta). Last month, as I played a lot with Google Maps, unknowingly my data charges shot up. I used about 9 MB of data, for about S$27. That’s very expensive. I repeat, very. Come to the rescue is Nokia Map Loader. It’s an application, clearly from Nokia, to load selected maps around the world to my N95 phone, so I’ll have the maps ready in the phone without having to connect to Internet to download the maps. Cool stuff. I have loaded the map of Indonesia (I think only Jakarta is available), whole of Singapore, and Malaysia.
Nokia Map Loader
I was quite surprised, when I search for road names in Jakarta, the result appeared. The map of Jakarta is complex enough, but the 5.2MB download includes all the road names, complete with postal codes. I’m impressed.
I already installed nokia maps on my phone, GPRS also already on, and I already install the Nokia Map Loader 1.3 and downloaded the Indonesia map (5,2 MB). But the map jakarta only show the airport and a high road, there’s no another street/road. What’s wrong??
Comment by Irwan — February 19, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Nokia Maps is a great free navigation app, but Nokia Map Loader is a horrible program. To make things worse, it needs hundreds of megs worth of .net framework. Imagine you need to get a local map on your phone in an internet cafe that won’t let you install any software on their machines…
But now you can add maps without the bulky bloated Nokia Map Loader. Works on PC (Windows, Linux, doesn’t matter) and Mac. If your phone talks WiFi or if you have unmetered 3G you don’t even need to touch a computer to add maps to your memory card!
Links to all maps and instructions on http://nokiamaps.moo.no
Comment by 666 — March 10, 2008 @ 4:34 am
irwan: sorry just saw your comment this late.
have you tried again? the last time i tried it, i saw a lot of very detailed roads, I even managed to get a turn-by-turn navigation from Kelapa Gading to Taman Anggrek.
Comment by hendrikch — March 11, 2008 @ 12:04 am
666: I’ll definitely take a look at that. Thanks for the link.
Comment by hendrikch — March 11, 2008 @ 12:04 am
Super link bro…
http://nokiamaps.moo.no
it has all the maps, hopefully with these, i can use the navigate function on my nokia n80..:-) thanxx once again…
Comment by NEO — April 4, 2008 @ 3:35 pm