Ovi Maps 3D – a whole lotta wow
You remember that 3D mapping stuff we saw examples of WAY, back showing off some pretty cool implications for the future of maps under Nokia and Navteq’s tutelage?? Well Nokia have made good on that promise, announcing their Ovi Maps 3D beta for browsers everywhere. Imagine Google maps 3D on steroids and you should have a pretty idea of what the entire furor is about.
Only a few cities are available right now (London, New York, Miami, Wein, Barcelona, Venice and a few others) but the idea of this running on a smartphone or tablet that I carry with me is exceptionally exciting. Of course, they’ll have to topple Google’s current stranglehold on mapping and search services but this is where the partnership with Microsoft will become invariably handy.
The 3D view isn’t overly high-resolution but the addition of a street view is much appreciated. Now to get this on to some high-powered hardware Nokia?
Hit the link below to install the plugin and get to browsing through one of these cities right now.
Update from Jay:
Crickey, I’m impressed. I hope to be this astonished when Nokia release their high end devices. When I saw the screenshot in this post, I was wondering why we had a photo of London and not the supposed 3D. With the 3D cities available, it’s a joy to explore. I also love how I fell into streetview. My browser viewed it in really widescreen panorama – this is just a short snippet, crudely destroyed by jpeg.
The little blue bubbles/circles is where your mouse is and where you can jump/fall into streetview
Interface on PC
Update from LLAADD:
Note: there are a couple of places where it looks like the screen has gone blank and the panning “stutters”, but this is not the Ovi Maps 3D, it’s my graphics card playing up, so hopefully when you try your self it works a lot better!
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Google got destroyed.
Woah.. pretty amazing shit! Try panning more and less vertical/horizontal and around over Manhattan for example…
I did, checked out a few locations I’ve been on dates too
Whoa!!! How can this be possible!!! This is just freaking beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
with TREES!!!
No love for Opera. Boo!
oh well, moving on then
Browser fundamentalist, eh?
imagine. Of all the browsers, opera holds 1.53 percent. And he is one of them. Coincidental no?
Ah, yeah I was trying it earlier… Mindblowing
if it could be coupled with street view that would be elite
There IS a street view!
Click when you see blue circles like this..
o o 0 O 0 o o
on the road.
OMG then this is insane
lol i didnt notice street view earlier cant wait for more cities!
Awesome! Looks better than Google Earth.
Yeah Pretty nice. Lets not forget I still dont have a proper Ovi navigation on my N900 that I started using again because of the great work done by the CSSU community.
Ok, I will keep that in mind.
This is gonna kick f’n ass on the N950. Can’t wait
Good job nokia
Really awsome… Can’t just believe its already there… Just imagine GPS navigation on 3D maps and street view on your mobile…
Oops! The popup says:
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Your browser is not supported yet
Check out the list of the compatible browsers.
The plug-in supports only the following browsers:
Internet Explorer 7+
Firefox 3.5+
Chrome
Safari 5+
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Bad luck for me, I am using Firefox 4
It works fine on my PC running Firefox 4. Perhaps there’s a problem with your PC?
Am also using firefox 4 and it is working for me…
Anyone using Ubuntu will run into problems
Holy shit it’s good. It’s like I’m there with the 3D :O and then streetview. mmmm.
Now to get the name out about Ovi Maps. Hope it remains Ovi Maps when MS get a hold of it/gobble it up with bing maps/whatever they try to do with it.
guess Wein = Wien = Vienna, right?
Bigger cities looks great, but smaller cities is as bad as early google maps, but this is just beta.
More complaining is the streets(names) in 3d view and street search in 3d view i dont see anything about that.
Last complain is changing between ordinary map and 3d it takes you back to whole earth and you have to search for your streets again.
This is pretty impressive, soon I won’t even have to travel.
:D
Expect this to get completely ignored by a biased, ignorant media. Because only Apple and Google produce anything good or new and we can’t have anything upsetting that world view, right?
It’s stunning and impressive, no doubt about it.
I found two YouTube clips on the net:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rpH_dnK4h4E
AMAZINGGGGGGG
This + Mango + Nokia = pure win
Nokia’s gonna experience some problems in regards with “personal rights” in Denmark, its not legal to be able to view plate-numbers from the cars.
You’re not supposed to view number plates either but I think there are some issues with BETA.
I’ve seen a number of licence plates and faces that aren’t blurred out. It’s automatically done, so prone to error.
Yeah I know, it will hopefully go away at some point, still its nice to see Nokia innovating
this is saving grace
WOW! google OWNED!
so, when can i use this on my N8?
Doesn’t work on our new Linux computers at work
That’s some really cool stuff. A little bit of competition for Google Maps on the descktop.
Andre wrote “…Of course, they’ll have to topple Google’s current stranglehold on mapping and search services but this is where the partnership with Microsoft will become invariably handy.”
That partnership apparently doesn’t extend for example to the Bing app which is available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and even BBOS but not Symbian.