Hello everyone, hope you all had a great start to 2012! We here in the Maps Blog team are also looking forward to what is sure to be a great year with great products from Nokia Maps, and we look forward to bring all those stories to you – you guys who have supported us through our changes, love Nokia Maps, and always have great suggestions and feedback for our team.

We are grateful to have you as our audience, and we want to bring great stories about Nokia Maps to you. In 2012, we are planning to bring to you behind the scene stories from our map makers, showcase our web and mobile products, introduce a few of the talented people who build our maps and apps and highlight some of YOU who are city experts – who knows about every nook and cranny in your city and neighborhood.

But what more? What other stories would you like us  to bring to you in 2012? This is your chance to tell us what YOU, our dear readers, want to hear from the Nokia Maps Blog. Do share your suggestions on the comments below, and we will try our very best to bring the stories that YOU want to your screens.

Today, Nokia made a decision to change our service branding from Ovi to Nokia. The main reason for this change is so we can leverage the high-value of the Nokia master brand Read more

Hello everyone. Unless you were having an internet-less existence, you have most definitely seen our Ovi Maps 3D Beta. Read more

While you were patiently waiting for the Store to be up and running again, we were working to make it even better. These are some of the enhancements we have recently introduced. Read more

One of the key reasons for us to have the Ovi social media feeds and Nokia Beta Labs  is to understand which of our services you like the most, and what you want to more from Ovi. So, we constantly monitor the feedback that you give us in these forums, and deliver them back to the team who develop the products and services. We may not reply to all of your comments, but trust me, we read each and everyone and make sure that the associated team reads them too!

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Hi, my name is Saara, I’m in the Services Marketing Team and I’m behind the Ovi Twitter and Facebook channels. You might know me from my Ovi People interview or met me in different meet-ups.
Last week, just before Nokia World, I participated, for instance, at A Night with Ovi in London.

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Niini and I love blogging here, especially when you post many comments. The positive ones definitively give us more energy (and on a Monday like this we desperately need it ), but also your suggestions and feedback how to improve Ovi are a great stimulus.
Today we would like to thank you all for your precious contribution by explaining you what happens after you publish your comments on the Ovi Blog, on our Facebook fan page or you tweet to @OvibyNokia.

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