It's not every day that you get direct feedback from the team behind a major manufacturer's software project. Following on from my Maps 2.0 preview, Nokia got in touch, answering some of my criticisms and giving more information about the future of the product. What's going to be added next to Maps, how to plan routes for free, why the satellite images aren't quite there yet, integration with Location Tagger and news of a future web-based map sync tool, it's all covered.

"With regard to my accusation that Nokia has removed the obvious ability to do route calculation, it was confirmed to me that "the routing function has not been removed. You can still route through the add menu. Simply click on 'add' and then select 'route' and you will be put into routing menu, where you can add any number of waypoints and calculate and view routes." The Maps team did admit though that the user interface may be at fault here and that work still needed to be done, but defended themselves saying that they "wanted to clean up the menu and make room for more stuff to come".

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