Nokia remains focused on the social location service. The Finnish phone maker announced the latest version of Ovi Maps, allowing people to add personal location-based content and the release of the Ovi Maps Player API, a simple way to embed Ovi Maps into any compatible website.

The latest version of Ovi Maps features including:

• High resolution satellite and terrain maps – both in 2D and 3D views
• 3D landmarks for over 200 cities, rotation, tilting, night view, and fly-overs and fly-throughs.
• Enriched POI information by Lonely Planet, Michelin and Wcities.
• Weather service that provides 24 hour and 5-day forecasts.
• Pedestrian navigation with routing optimized for those on foot.
• Finally, many bugs have now been fixed

Check-out Ovi Maps Beta on the web at www.maps.ovi.com, Ovi Maps Beta for your device at www.nokia.com/betalabs/maps and Ovi Maps Player API beta program at forum.nokia.com/ovi.

Maps 3.0 Beta works with Nokia devices based on:

• S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (E71, E66, 6110 Navigator, N95, N95 8GB, N82).
• S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (N96, N85, N79, 6650, 6210 Navigator, 6220 Classic, N78).