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02-09-2009

07-09-2009

With Ovi MapsBeta, you have many ways to explore. Select from the following:

  • My position - Find your current location easier and faster.
  • Find places - Find places and addresses easily with one-box search.
  • Favourites - Save your favourite places and routes. Sign in to your Ovi account, and synchronise all you personal favourites with maps.ovi.com.
  • Drive* - Use car navigation with voice and visual instructions, lane assistance, and speed limit warners. The new text-to-speech# feature for voice guidance speaks the street names during the navigation.
  • Walk** - Use pedestrian navigation with routing through pedestrian zones and shortcuts, stairways, plazas, and pathways through parks and buildings. Now voice guidance speaks the street names during the navigation.
  • Weather - Get real-time weather information including a 5 day forecast for your current or any location found with the help of the Find places functionality.
  • Michelin and Lonely Planet - Get dynamic access to premium editorial travel content for over 1000 destinations. Find thousands of listings for sights, restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife, and more. Look these places up on the map, and get there with pedestrian and car navigation.
  • Events - Check out the events on the map around your location or other places you have found with the help of the Find places functionality.

* Included with the Drive license.
**Included with the City explorer license.

#Text-to-speech is available for English and German voice guidance, both for car and pedestrian navigation. More languages will follow in the commercial release.
To enable text-to-speech for voice guidance in car and pedestrian navigation, select Ovi MapsBeta and the settings icon > Navigation > Voice guidance > English female (UK) - with street names or German female - with street names.

Coverage for navigable maps in car and pedestrian navigation:
Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China / Hong Kong / Macau, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican.

Traffic Coverage:
Austria, Australia,Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA

Safety Coverage:
Austria, Andorra, Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom