I’ll show you how to get info from Google Earth to Nokia Maps. Part of the reason I needed to do this was finding tickets hidden by Nine Inch Nails around Los Angeles. Read more for the guide and backstory.

Backstory

One of my favorite bands is Nine Inch Nails. Later this summer they start the Lights in the Sky tour. In June, they also put up a .kml file to be used with Google Earth. There’s info about installation on their flickr page below.

NIN tour Viewed in Google Earth

The .kml file is connected to a server. On July 4th at 2PM, Nine Inch nails updated the .kml file. Around 6PM, someone noticed something strange in the KML file. A question mark was placed in Burbank. The only info said “Under a Rock”. I inputted the street name into Nokia Maps and drove to the location. I couldn’t get the exact location, so I had to navigate by eye when I got nearby. I found nothing there. I found out later in the night someone got there about 10 minutes before me.

Someone found the tickets before me.

On July 8, another question mark showed in Griffith Park. The clue said “in the pipe”. I didn’t find out about this one until it was long too late. It took two hours to be found.

On July 12 at 4:15pm, another question mark popped, this time it was near Anaheim. The clue said “Campsite of Anza”. This place was 50 miles away. I figured I had 1 hour to get there, so I hopped in the car and drove. I didn’t get there until 5:40. Someone got there before me again.

I didn’t have my N82 with me that day (I sent it out for repairs). I could have routed myself around the traffic with Google Maps and found the exact location with Nokia Maps a little quicker if I did.

This whole ordeal made me wonder, how do I get info from Google Earth to Nokia Maps. In the past, The Nokia Blog has covered Google Maps to Nokia Maps and Phone to Phone location sending, but not Google earth to phone.

Steps

• Start off in Google Earth. Select your location and save it. Be sure to save as .kml and not .kmz.
• Next, go to this website: http://poiconvert.free.fr/
• For the source format, select .kml
• Next upload your file.
• Finally, select your output format. You can choose formats for TomTom (.ov2), Garmin (.asc) and Nokia Maps (.lmx). I can’t test TomTom or Garmin, so I’ll talk about Nokia Maps.
• Send the .lmx file to your phone. I sent the file with bluetooth for ease of use. You can also plug in the USB cable and then transfer the file, then open it with a file explorer. You can also email the file to yourself as an attached file.
• Open the .lmx file and Nokia Maps will start up and find the location.