Map Creator

A little over a year ago Nokia surprised everyone with the renewal of its map tool. This is how it presented Here, the new generation of its digital cartography tool that not only renewed its appearance, but its technology and possibilities. Now it goes one step further by opening up to users, but not only to consult their data, streets, addresses and places of interest, but also to crearlos And the tool Map Creator is being developed in Spain for maps ofHere

It is about giving the possibility to fans of this field to participate in the creation of the maps. Something that is not new, but effective, as other options on the market have shown, such as the well-known application Waze And it is that in this way it is not only possible to correct maps, but also create new where technology from Nokia has not yet arrived to scan the area, being able to give all the details by users of the area, thus taking advantage of their knowledge.

At the moment the tool Map Creator is under development in Spain, already appearing in the version Here maps website However, and for the moment, it is necessary to request the possibility of collaborating in the creation or edition of maps at the email address: . Thus, it is possible to become part of a Spanish community of digital cartographers and join other communities that already operate in other countries to provide knowledge about the area.

And the fact is that the edition of maps by users not only offers the possibility to correct any error in the name of the streets or on the layout of highways. It also offers the possibility to establish and indicate places of interest to create an even more complete tool. In this way, users can download and regularly update the maps through the applications Here Maps, Here Transit or Here Driveto have all the changes and new details added by the community.

In most cases, according to the Nokia Conversations blog, the volunteers who make up these communities in Map Creator are students and passionate about digital mappingPeople with sufficient motivation to work on this aspect and whose contribution benefits all users of this application and mapping tool.

An application based on the 25 years of experience of the mapping division of Nokia which has used vehicles and devices to scan and create the representing almost everyone. All this using more than 80,000 data sources and now also different volunteer communities around everyone. A good way to complete these maps and whose results can be enjoyed from the web or through the applications for devices with operating system Windows Phone And it is that the version of Here Maps for iOShas recently been removed from App Store for quality reasons, according to Nokia