Summer is great time for travels any way you like, by foot, by train, by your own car. If you take your Nokia N900 with you there are some ways to enrich experiences and be prepared for many different situations.

If you like any kind of trips you should know that it’s good to have a map. Old-fasioned paper maps tend to get older, they’re vulnerable for various terms like rain. N900 offers you Maep application as really good substitute for paper maps. When you launch application you can see simple and intuitive interface, GPS tracking that may save you time for wandering where exactly you are and access to few online maps, depending on what you need. The most popular engine is Google Maps I think, at least I’m using it the most. Alternatives should satisfy everyone, Open Street Map, Virtual Earth with satellite and hybrid view, lightweight Public Transport for drivers and people travelling by train or bus, even OpenCycleMap for those who likes bicycles. Thanks to tracking you can easily find yourself, plan better and store your trip history to share even more experiences with friends or family.

I’ve tested Maep while coming back from my ‘healthy weekend’ and was really satisfied with results, GPRS connection was good enough to smoothly view maps and track my trip by bus. I was amused when I’ve found I’m near place where I’ve spent my vacation 7 years ago (!), it brought back few nice memories, I’m almost sure that most of you can also find such places during own travels.

Maep in few words is really great substitute or paper map and gives more possibilities, even if you know area quite well it’s nice to have such application on your N900, you can always learn something new.

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MJ