Nokia Maps adds advanced route planning and Groupon Now! offers
Skift Take
What good was a maps app without directions? This seems like a functional necessity more than a perk, although Groupon must be happy for a chance to reach customers with location aware data -- even if only the few thousand with a Windows Phone.
Today Nokia released a new version of its Maps application for Windows Phone. In it is support for route planning, at last, and also integration with the Groupon Now! product.
Route planning, the ability to determine a path between two locations was, in Nokia’s words, “one of [the] most requested features since we introduced Nokia Maps for Nokia Lumia.”
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