[Qt-mobility-feedback] Exporting Nokia E71 (Symbian S60) GPS Landmarks to Google Maps

[Hendy Irawan]

I've been migrating my data from my two-year-old *Nokia E71* to the new *Nokia
N900*. One of the data is *GPS Landmarks* aka *POI (Points of Interest)* aka
*Map Places*.

Though I haven't yet found a way to import the landmarks to Nokia N900 (I'm
not even sure if I can add a new Place in Ovi Maps!), but you can *export
Nokia/Symbian S60 landmarks to Google Maps.* Which is good enough in the
mean time since Nokia N900 runs Google Maps + Latitude
beautifully<http://noknok.tv/2010/01/18/get-google-maps-on-your-nokia-n900/>(with
some patience).

My steps to export Nokia E71 landmarks to Google Maps were:

   1. In Nokia E71, go to GPS -> Landmarks.
   2. Select all the landmarks (mark all) and Options -> Send. Send via
   Bluetooth or email so you can save the resulting file (Landmarks.lmx) on
   your computer.
   3. Download the excellent free GPS tool *RouteConverter*
here<http://www.routeconverter.de/>
   .
   4. Run *RouteConverter*, open the *Landmarks.lmx* file and save it
as *Google
   Earth 5 Compressed (.kmz)* file.
   5. Go to Google Maps. Click My Maps -> (your map) -> Edit -> Import. Then
   upload your Landmarks.kmz file and all landmarks are imported beautifully!
   :-)

As a programmer it should be doable to develop a
tool<http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_export_landmarks_from_database_to_file>which
reads a LMX or KMZ/KML file and import the
*GPS Locations *to the Nokia N900 Ovi Maps Places database. You up for a
challenge? ;-)
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