Keen to see new wave of innovative location-based mobile applications.
Nokia is opening up its Ovi Maps service to external developers, allowing them to make use of it in their applications in the same way they can use Google Maps on iPhone and Android.
EVP of Services Niklas Savander has just taken the stage at Nokia World to announce the news in his keynote speech, but ME sat down with him yesterday to get an early preview.
“We are publishing an SDK and opening up our APIs, first on location, but that is just the first step,” he told us. “Five companies have already been working with it, and it is created in such a way that developers can do it with totally standard web tools: JavaScript and cascading style sheets.”
Among the apps being shown off today are one by German rail firm Deutsche Bahn, which has created an app to show train locations in real-time. Savander says this app was developed in just two weeks, which he says shows the ease with which developers can get to grip with Nokia's new SDK.
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