Nokia nav service to profit from Ordnance Survey data

28 May 2008

To reach the next level of digital mapping and navigation, Nokia intended by releasing Nokia Maps 2.0 with improved optional car navigation, enhanced pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, and now satellite images and a redesigned user interface.

The software using the Ordnance Survey's Code-Point data is able to underpin the GPS service by providing the exact location for the 1.7 million postcodes in the UK, enabling users to get direction information that is both highly accurate and linked to an actual place "on the map".
The new version of Nokia Maps 2.0 for selected devices is available on the Nokia website.