Ovi Prime Places - business listings for Ovi Maps

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Ovi Prime Places, a free service which allows businesses to add their details and meta data to Ovi Maps, has been quietly launched by Nokia. Ovi Prime Places should help improve Ovi Maps PoI (point of interest) database and related location / place search. For businesses it is an opportunity to reach 'users on millions of devices'. Read on for further details.

Ovi Prime Places allows businesses to claim existing places / PoIs or create new ones. It allows the addition or editing of information such as contact details, opening times and descriptions (both images and text).

Ovi Prime Places continues the evolution of the Ovi Maps feature set. It follows in the footsteps of the consumer focused Ovi Good Things, which allows users to add custom PoIs to Ovi Maps.

Here's the sign up page for Ovi Prime Places:

Prime Place

Below is a screenshot of an existing Ovi place waiting to be claimed by it owners (Ritz Hotel, London). Note the inclusion of extra meta data and additional links for rating the place, sharing the place, and adding the place to your favourites.

Ovi Prime Place

In some cases information, drawn from sources such as Lonely Planet and WCities, is also shown (as extra tabs). This can include pictures, which are shown in the form of a gallery. It seems likely that Ovi Prime Place information (i.e. that submitted by the business) will appear in its own tab.

Ovi Prime Place 2

Source / thanks to: IntoMobile