How To: Use Nokia Maps To Send Current Location To Your Friends
You can show your friends where you are on Nokia Maps if they also have Maps on their Nokia phone. The interface is not as pretty as it should be, but it gets it done. Have a lot of friends nearby with the latest Nokia phones? Meeting up is easy. Read the how to.
Steps For The Sender
- Open Nokia Maps and wait until your location is found.
- Press the center key -> send. There are several ways to send locations, but I found multimedia text (mms) the most convenient.
- The MMS will automatically insert the address of your location in the message but you can edit as shown on the image below. Nokia Maps will not be able to display anything using the text alone. The MMS attaches an object/file that your friend needs to open so that Nokia Maps can display your location.

Sending location by MMS on Nokia E71
Steps For The Receiver
- Open the message and select options -> objects.
- Click on the .lmx file to see the address info in text.
- Click options again, then “Show on map” to see the location on Nokia Maps.
- From here, you can choose to navigate by walking or driving to meet up!

Receiving location by MMS on Nokia E71
Recommendation
As a user, I think it would be better if my inbox automatically recognizes the the .lmx file and give the option of showing the location straight from the message. Having to click options -> object -> options -> show on map is a little redundant. I recommend a link at the bottom of message with “Show on map.” That’s one click compared to 4 clicks.
Thanks to Ricky Cadden from Symbian-Guru for helping me out with this topic!













Damyan on 11 July 2008:
Heh, nice, very nice!
No more of those ‘Where u at?’ SMSs!
Ricky on 11 July 2008:
Grrrr, Mark, after walking you through this the other day, I had it on my mind to put the exact same article together! Great work beating me to it, and thanks for the linkback. Keep up the great work man.
N95 8GB on 12 July 2008:
Thank you very much for these steps. Yes you are truye indeed that it would be better if our inbox automatically recognizes the the .lmx file and give the option of showing the location straight from the message.
mark on 12 July 2008:
and if they have no nokia maps you could try options>tools>save map screen shot and you can then email or mms etc
Micky on 12 July 2008:
Great article, and guide.! Im yet to try this out, but looks easy enough.
Micky
Mark Guim on 12 July 2008:
@mark good idea!
Ameen on 12 July 2008:
Hi every one
I’m looking for all Nokia Product codes of Arabic language especially the Nokia 6230&6230i/and both of Nokia 6500s & the classic
and last but not least the Operator Specific codes of Nokia N80 6500s and the classic
thank you all
Ameen 13th July 2008 0258 UK time
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