Yahoo Maps teams up with Nokia Here to provide indoor venue maps

Himanshu Arora

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Looking to improve its product and compete with Google Maps, Yahoo Maps has partnered with Nokia Here to provide indoor floor plans. This means that users will now be able to easily locate places like restaurants, stores, cafes, ATMs, restrooms and more, across large areas like shopping malls, airports or stadiums. Yahoo has added more than 75,000 Here-powered indoor venue maps to its mapping service.

Here captures location content such as buildings, traffic patterns, road networks, and parks, and its technology is based on a cloud-computing model in which location data and services are stored on remote servers. Nokia's mapping tech already powers services like Bing Maps and MapQuest.

Here covers nearly 200 countries, with indoor maps available in 45 countries. It also offers voice guided navigation in 94 countries, and provides live traffic information in 33 countries. The venue maps are now live on maps.yahoo.com, and according to Nokia, they've also received Yahoo’s beautiful "purple and lilac livery".

Here remains one of Nokia's key business units, especially after software giant Microsoft acquired its phone division last year. In fact, former CEO Steve Ballmer wanted the mapping division too, but due to the board's opposition he couldn't push the deal through.

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Looks like it could come in handy but I ditched my Win 8 phone for an Android so Google maps will have to do me from here on in.
 
Looks like it could come in handy but I ditched my Win 8 phone for an Android so Google maps will have to do me from here on in.
I feel for you bro!!! Windows Phone is the superior, although admittedly still growing, experience and Nokia's mapping service only added to it. It just keeps getting better and better. So I guess everyone learns the hard way, so maybe you will think twice about doing something like this again. Guessing you are on a 2 year contract, so you pretty much screwed unless you flog that crap you got to replace it with on ebay or something and get the Lumia 1020, or 1520 if you like bigger phones. Both I can highly recommend!
 
I feel for you bro!!! Windows Phone is the superior, although admittedly still growing, experience and Nokia's mapping service only added to it. It just keeps getting better and better. So I guess everyone learns the hard way, so maybe you will think twice about doing something like this again. Guessing you are on a 2 year contract, so you pretty much screwed unless you flog that crap you got to replace it with on ebay or something and get the Lumia 1020, or 1520 if you like bigger phones. Both I can highly recommend!
Ok maybe my post was misleading. I still have my Win 8 phone and I'd never ever, ever sign any wireless carrier contract, I don't enjoy being robbed so for me it's prepaid or nothing. I can switch between Android and Windows whenever I like but I much prefer Android (Galaxy S4 Mini) so that's where I'm staying. One of these days I'll get rid of the Windows phone (Lumia 625). As you can see I prefer phones, not bulky semi tablets.
 
I feel for you bro!!! Windows Phone is the superior, although admittedly still growing, experience and Nokia's mapping service only added to it. It just keeps getting better and better. So I guess everyone learns the hard way, so maybe you will think twice about doing something like this again. Guessing you are on a 2 year contract, so you pretty much screwed unless you flog that crap you got to replace it with on ebay or something and get the Lumia 1020, or 1520 if you like bigger phones. Both I can highly recommend!
Ok maybe my post was misleading. I still have my Win 8 phone and I'd never ever, ever sign any wireless carrier contract, I don't enjoy being robbed so for me it's prepaid or nothing. I can switch between Android and Windows whenever I like but I much prefer Android (Galaxy S4 Mini) so that's where I'm staying. One of these days I'll get rid of the Windows phone (Lumia 625). As you can see I prefer phones, not bulky semi tablets.
It was a guest posting and judging from the tone I was wondering if it was one of those Advert Style postings. In other words a paid for endorsement.
 
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