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Mar 09 2010

How To: Use Coordinates In Ovi Maps

Posted by Ibrahim Jogee in App-Review, How To, Navigation, Nokia, Nokia Maps, Ovi Maps, S60, S60v3, S60v5, Symbian

How To Use Coordinates In Ovi Maps How To: Use Coordinates In Ovi Maps

Finding destinations using Ovi Maps is very easy now, with the search more precise than ever. There is one slight weakness however, when trying to access a location using coordinates, as the option isn’t so apparent. Now although navigating with coordinates is hardly an everyday scenario, there may be times when you’d like to find or navigate to a location using just the coordinates. So heres a quick guide on how to go about this on your Nokia smartphone.

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What you’ll need to do first is access the Landmarks application from the main menu. It may be available through the ‘Applications’ sub-menu in some phones. Then simply add a new landmark choosing the ‘enter manually’ option.

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Here you will be presented with a list of different information you can input for this new location. If you scroll near to the end you will see the Latitude and Longitude options. Enter the information and hit ‘done’.

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The settings are automatically set in degrees, minutes and seconds, and if you wish to change them to decimals for example, you will need to access the ‘Positioning Settings’ from the Landmarks homescreen.

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At this point you will be given an overview of the location information you have entered, in this case the coordinates for the Eiffel Tower, Paris. Once you ensure all the details are as they should be, you can exit the Landmark application and open up Ovi Maps.

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In Ovi Maps hit the ‘Favourites’ option from the main menu where you will find ‘Synchronise’, Places, Routes and ‘Create New’. In the ‘Places’ tab you will find your saved ‘Landmark’ you setup earlier.

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Click on the location and you will be given the option to view details of the location, show the location on the map or navigate to the location in the variety of different ways.

You can find more guides and how to’s in our Tutorials section.

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  • http://www.womworld.com/nokia/13967/using-coordinates-in-ovi-maps/ Using coordinates in Ovi Maps « WOMWorld/Nokia

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  • http://www.ovi-maps.nl Ovi Maps

    I think ovi maps needs a the same user interface as other navigations systems are using like TomTom or Sygic. If they keep using this interfase it is worthless!

  • Johan Bosman

    My settings default to decimal and when I try to change it, the “Positioning Settings” option is not available in the menu. I use a Nokia E71 phone and have updated to the latest version of Ovi Maps. Is there anyone out there who have advice for this?

  • Jesse S

    Having the same problem as Johan Bosman. Using scandic version of E71. Have to say that I’m REALLY disappointed if Nokia has taken the manual coordinate input out of scandic/ european versions.

  • Fernando

    Same problem as Johan and Jesse. And find very strange Nokia uses decimal format for input and later shows Degrees Minutes Seconds in the map.

  • Lois

    The decimals/degrees really don’t matter, only the number between, right? And it works for the Scnadinavian version of N97.
    Very useful instructions by the way!

  • Nasir

    Nokia C7 doesnt have “Landmarks”
    it has only “Maps”
    Then how to enter coordinates in it ????
    and no updates are there neither landmark installation ??

    does anyone know ??

    THanks

  • Massimo Scali

    Nokia N8 : Do not find landmark application ! Does it exist for N8 ?

  • pradeep

    thanks a lot, information was very useful.

  • Nevim66

    Where I can find landmarks for N8 ?

  • Coco Yumbo

    N8 Menu-aplication-search (find)-places and edit your favorite places (created in nokia maps before). After edit latid. and leng. Run nokia maps and use favorites.

  • Joseph

    Great help, thanks

  • Aiman

    I am using C7 and just found the solution.
    Go to drive, click “set destination” and then click “Search”
    Just type the coordinate there either in decimal or minutes

  • Sadathpv

    Here is the way to save landmark in Nokia N8
    Open the nokia maps application.
    Select Maps
    Click search
    enter the GPS Coordinates in the search files (for example: 24 20 01 n 55 20 55 e)
    after selecting the position it will show on the map, on the top it shows the details,
    press and hold the details, then it shows another menu with save option, just select save and name it.

  • Marcin_dub

    OMG, thanks for this, Nokia made it really REALLY difficult for it’s users! I use Ovi Maps for 2 years now and never though you can use coordinates