Another trip away, another opportunity to really test out Nokia Maps, here in its latest v2.0 version with updated maps. And it all went horribly wrong, with navigation completely unusable. Read on for more and to comment if you've experienced similar problems. [update] From the comments so far, it seems that map data for some countries is simply broken.

My trip was across the South of the UK and, as usual, Nokia Maps was my navigator. Maps 2.0 was in my shiny new v30 firmware for my N95 8GB and a few days ago MapLoader offered to replace my UK maps with a new version - who wouldn't say no to better maps - so I upgraded.

And I still don't know what's wrong - the application or the maps (though I suspected the latter) - all I do know (as per the screenshots below) is that the system isn't now working at all. The roads aren't seen as joined up, which means that the route planning and navigation only works every now and then. Very, very frustrating.

What I need to know is whether my experience is an isolated one. Are you having problems with Maps in the new firmware or with the new maps from MapLoader? Let's see if we can get to the bottom of this!

Steve Litchfield

PS. What did I do to get around instead? Google Maps - but navigation in this is strictly a two person job - one to drive and one (my wife) to shout out what to do!