the first thing that strikes me with the new maps program is how much faster it loads which was a drawback on the old one. It also seem to calculate routes faster and syncs much better with the maps for web.
To keep it short it seems to be an all over improvment or maybe more a total re-write of the maps program. The new features such as weather and events are great addition that seem to be a port of the here and now app. Though the weather might be a bit slow to update at times.
The michelin and lonely planet guides was an intresting additin though maybe a bit lacking in data so far.
All in all i think we will see ovi maps materialize out of beta in record time.
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