I get frustrated whenever Nokia Maps cannot find places I search for. I end up opening Google Maps instead which finds them every time, but it doesn’t have turn-by-turn voice navigation that I want from Nokia Maps. I’m glad that the two apps share bookmarks or favorite places to fix that problem.

Whatever location or address that is bookmarked or saved on Google Maps is accessible to Nokia Maps and vice versa. Since Google is much better with searching, I recommend searching for the place you want to go using Google Maps, save the location as a favorite, then open up Nokia Maps to handle the navigation.

Nokia Maps and Google Maps Shared Favorites

I am going to search for the location of a place called B and H Photos in New York City. My query is “BH photo.” Google finds it immediately while Nokia Maps does not find it al all.

Save it as a favorite in Google Maps.

Open Nokia Maps and go to Favorites – My Places. Select Drive to to go on your merry way!

Without Google Maps, I would have been really frustrated, quit, then called Nokia Maps crap. However, I love the voice navigation. It helped me get to many places safely. What about you? Is this how you use your GPS enabled phone?