Nokia Maps and Google Earth – POIXpress or Sportstracker?

I’m still playing with my phone. So today I tried the two (?) available programs able to export landmarks from Nokia’s Maps in a format readible by GoogleEarth. Nobody wants to keep his landmarks just on his mobile, right? Nokia uses the KLM format for it’s landmarks, so that’s the format we want to export to.

There’re Pros and Cons for both applets; Sportstracker comes free from Nokia’s website, that’s the Pro. What I don’t like about it is, that you can only export routes to *.klm-files,     so you always have to act as if you’re doing sports while you’re standing at a landmark you want to export to Google Earth. So you have to start a workout, wait for the sportstracker to find GPS-Satellites, stop the workout and save the route (even if you didn’t move). That route you can easily export, but the entire procedure takes at least about 30 seconds.

POIXpress is solely written for exporting (and importing) landmarks to and from other formats. So using this applet is way more straightforward. You start it, choose the category of landmarks you want to export (Picture 1) and choose the format KLM to export to Google Earth. Save it to your memory-card and transfer it to your computer. In Google-Earth you’ll finally get the landmarks with “File –> Import”.

              

Picture1                          Picture 2

Yes, there’s something else… POIXpress is way more convenient to use than Sportstracker, but after the 7-days trial (long enough to export all landmarks you already have) activating the tools costs you 5 USD. Not a lot in my mind considering the time saved with PoiXpress instead of faking Workouts with Sportstracker. The trial-version is available here. Depending on your willingness to pay, the time saved with POIXpress’s convenience might be worth the 5 USD. I still have 4 days trial to think about it.

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