Folks in London, Berlin and Madrid: join our Nokia Maps 2.0 car navigation research session in your city (and get some cool stuff)
Over the next few weeks Nokia Maps team will conduct a piece of research for the Drive car navigation feature within Nokia Maps 2.0. We’re looking for a range of users, from novice to experienced, who are based in London, Berlin or Madrid and have been using Drive within Maps 2.0 actively. Hands-on experience with other car navigation products is a big plus too.
This is how it works:
If you are using the Drive feature actively, and are based in London, Berlin or Madrid, and happen to have some free time in your city during weeks commencing with July 21st and July 28th, this is an opportunity for you to influence the development of the car navigation feature for the next software release.
If you would like to participate in the research session in your city (London, Berlin, Madrid) in person, please fill in the next 5 questions online and leave us your contact details.
We will contact some of you within the next few days to check your availability and invite you for a session in your city. In appreciation for your time and your feedback during the research session, you will receive 100€ / 80£, and some cool Nokia Maps goodies.
Oh, and please spread the word!!
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Pingback by Nokia Maps 2.0 research study: London, Berlin or Madrid | — July 2, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
Yay, we have a couple of people from London and Berlin already - anyone from Madrid out there? (I believe the session will be worth participating)
Comment by Tommi Vilkamo — July 2, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
Whenever you need Chicago, I’m here
Comment by Fernando — July 2, 2008 @ 10:14 pm
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don’t forget Santiago de Chile
Comment by Humberto — July 3, 2008 @ 2:51 am
When will nokia maps come to India?? Indian maps are still untouched by nokia.. hv to use borin google maps
Comment by Arpit — July 3, 2008 @ 11:27 am
If you guys are ever looking at Malaysia, just give me a buzz
Comment by Anwar — July 3, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
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Pingback by Nokia Beta Labs Maps 2.0 London, Berlin, Madrid Study - Earn 100 Euro - Nokia N95Users — July 5, 2008 @ 10:13 pm
good
Comment by dmi9636 — July 6, 2008 @ 11:14 am
HI..
I am waiting for Nokia to launch the maps for kerala,Trivandrum.
waiting waiting waiting
thanks
Comment by Manmohandas — July 7, 2008 @ 7:56 am
hi
i have a new N95 8gb but i cant activate the free movies on the phone… the activation code that i got from the pack is invalid… so how can i check that my N95 is a real one or its a fake … plzz help me
Thanks
Comment by Manmohandas — July 7, 2008 @ 8:00 am
I would be very interested in joining the research session, but then I thought “I don’t live in any of those cities”. Hehe. To bad for me. But then again it would require me to actually buy a license for Nokia Maps. And since I have sworn on eveything in the universe that I will never do so I can never be a part of such a research session. Again, to bad for me. Hehe.
As long as I have my N95 it will annoy me that I could be so stupid to fall for the “free maps trick”. Imagine that I actually though that when I spent that amount of money on a high end mobile phone I would get the navigation I thought I payed for — at least more than a simple three day trial of the, at that time, a pre 1.0 version of Nokia Maps.
So I used up the trial at that time, and couldn’t test the 1.0 version, and now I can’t even test the 2.0 version.
Thanx for my time…
, Espen
Comment by Espen — July 8, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
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Comment by mohammed — July 9, 2008 @ 8:47 am
South Africa needs to have this done aswell. When ever you need Joburg i`m here.
Comment by Mandla — July 10, 2008 @ 4:32 pm
I have N72 and i wan’t to run GPS on my devies. And how is it possible. Or is it possible or not.
Comment by Sachin — July 10, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
1. Wow - how come the sudden generosity! Rather different to anything that has been offered to beta contributors before! Is this a change of tack, or just a one-off?
Either way, past contributors and winners may feel somewhat badly done by, in comparison.
2. Why just those cities? Why not others?
3. Can you please delete the Flashmap posts - I’d rather we didn’t let folk get away with hijacking the beta labs blog to advertise their own product. Out of order behaviour.
Comment by Geoff — July 11, 2008 @ 1:15 am
@Geoff:
1. I have always wanted to give more generous prizes (though not too generous not to create badwill and unhealthy competition among the community). One problem has been that arranging *global* competitions and awards with significant monetary value is surprisingly difficult, with different laws, taxation systems, customs, etc. Country-specific prizes/awards are easier.
2. You can’t be face-to-face everywhere, have to choose something
3. Good point, thanks. Flashmap posts moderated. (I wonder if we could give trusted community members moderator rights to delete inappropriate items, especially now that we are planning to increase the feedback/discussion opportunities)
Comment by Tommi Vilkamo — July 11, 2008 @ 8:19 am
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gps facility availiable in e61i model or not in india.if it is aviliable in india can i get the map of jodhpur,bombay & lucknow etc.
Comment by ns — July 11, 2008 @ 8:50 pm
and tell me the 3g model including gps & t.v.facility
Comment by ns — July 11, 2008 @ 8:52 pm
Need Serbia detaliated map!!!
Comment by Nfunk70 — July 12, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
I’m game for some Canadian (Toronto area specifically) testing!
Comment by JP — July 13, 2008 @ 1:06 am
great to hear that research is ongoing for nokia maps. i’ve been thinking on maps for a while now and there are a few features i think should be considered:
1. allow ‘interactive’ usage: ie, let the user opt-in to give a basic reason for any of the following events:
a. choosing to re-route on the device (reasons: poor road condition, traffic, other)
b. driving an alternate path than that provided (reasons: poor road conditions, traffic, bad route, other)
c. on observation of erroneous map data (there’s no petrol where the map says so) provide ‘corrective observations’
2. distribute data from the community observations:
a. online routing could favor the path commonly driven, rather than calculated (this might help avoid excess traffic lights, stop signs, or wear on the vehicle via poorly maintained roads)
b. observation data may be extended to ’subscriptions’ for specific types of content: i might join a group of bird-watchers and subscribe to observations of Eagle sightings - perhaps adding on-going logs to specific sites (eagle nest observed by user A; updated by user B observing the nest is destroyed by winds, etc).
3. en-route searching: i’ve sought this for some time now. on a long drive i’ve love to be able to ask my n95 to find me a coffee along my path. with community driven observables, this could be extended to offering a stop-over en-route due to being in proximity of a landmark-type you are subscribed to.
thats my 2 cents.
-bit
Comment by bitflung — July 14, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
If you need someone in São Paulo just let me know, ok? I’d really like to participate and help to improve Nokia Maps even more…
Comment by Roberto — July 15, 2008 @ 6:35 pm
Could you create some kind of POI-package format that is easy for users or firms to compile and share?
I think that it would be handy if I only could click one link on some stores website and it would ask me if i want to add a new poi-group to nokia maps. Then after you install it there’s icon and everything ready in their place.
Comment by hookoo — July 16, 2008 @ 5:18 pm
Well, it does not start on Nokia E62 and does not uninstall also. I had to install the version 1.02 and make one substitution.
Comment by Jonio Costa — July 16, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
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i bought N82 recently. but i don have access to map of iran cities. when nokia prepare and put iran map in Nokia map?
Comment by Ali — July 20, 2008 @ 11:15 am
i want to know when nokia e66model will reach
Comment by baskar — July 20, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
Hallo admin,
I have a problem, before a while I registrated Nokia Maps 2.0 car navigation and immediately from this time I obtain each mitute a new empty sms from mob. number +42077788156. Where is a problem and damned how I can stop it??! I thought that this site is SERIOUS
Martin
Comment by Martin — July 22, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
Whenever you need Brazil, I`ll be here to give you a hand to test new stuffs !!!
Btw, I`ve been testing Maps 2.0 by my own on my N95 8GB, and I found couple bugs that I would like to share.
Keep in touch
Regards,
JohNNy
Comment by JohNNy — July 23, 2008 @ 2:14 am
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Comment by هنتياهنسياايس — July 24, 2008 @ 9:59 am
only persian gulf.
i’m map of persian gulf ..please give me.tnx
Comment by mj — July 27, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
Hi,
I am in Paris and I can tell you Nokia Maps does not calculate routes in an appropriate way in an urban environment like Paris. The time estimation is always totally wrong if the route is within the city (1/3 usually of the real time it takes!), which means the optimization of the route is also wrong.
Tomtom estimates appropriately the time, though, so it must be possible.
I don’t know about other cities, but it seems like Nokia Maps would learn a lot from users in Paris.
(and if you want feedback about traffic information, it really does not provide any valuable information in Paris either).
Comment by Nicolas — July 28, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Let me know if you would be needing tester for the Dallas area.
Comment by Jesus Martinez — July 30, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
Hey, is there any guide in very detail for Nokia Maps.
2nd, when we activate license for 3 days, we’re just a newbie and waste our trial. Don’t you think the trial period should be longer or should be “Use” based not “days” based?
Comment by Sanjeev — July 31, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
why don’t you add Iran in your maps. once i traveled there and i found that my Nokia maps did not have the map of Iran. i think its important for a GPS to work EVERY WHERE!! not some places. because there are a lot of maps for me in developed country’s like England, France or etc. but where i will get lost and Nokia GPS can be useful in there!!? strange and unknown country’s like Iran or etc. you know what I’m saying wright?
Comment by Memol — July 31, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
А можно на русском..вас хрен поймешь
Comment by MaDKinG — August 1, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
Its nice one
Comment by Sajan — August 3, 2008 @ 9:55 am
Please add Tehran map to your map collection. THX
Comment by ALI Amiripour — August 7, 2008 @ 7:00 am
Iy must have been a downloadable map for Iran, either navigable or not.
Comment by EPSiLON — August 10, 2008 @ 5:19 pm
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