E72 No map of Costa Rica available in OVI

Question

OK, got my phone and came home to download a Costa Rica map so I could use the GPS.
Guess what? Only few country maps are available trough OVI and Costa Rica is not one.
Please what map format is needed and how to manually install it (steps), so I can try to find a Costa Rica Map and get it install....

Answer 1

Haven't checked Costa Rica map.. but I did notice that some major countries have very little map information... eg. Japan does have a map but only the major highways are there.  There doesn't seem to be map data for Korea either.  The China map, surprisingly is quite detailed (for the big cities, it even had street number info for the street addresses!).  In our country Philippines, the map data is erratic -- major cities are pretty complete (but not very updated), but rural far-flung areas only have map data for highways (but minor streets are typically not indicated, or only few).
This page shows Nokia Map Coverage:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/maps-support/pricing-and-coverage/map-coverage-tool
However, I wonder about it's accuracy, since for instance, as mentioned above, the Philippines map isn't exactly complete, but I find the street data in the cities quite complete, yet the map coverage tool in the above link says "Philippines - no map coverage information"...
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With regards to Google Maps, yes, it does seem to usually be more complete than Nokia Map (at least with the maps that I tried), however, its big downside is that it can't be pre-downloaded onto the cellphone -- one needs an active Internet connection to download maps [which can be slow too if using cellphone wifi] -- and if you're in a country which doesn't have telecom Internet data plans, then it's simply too expensive to download data on the fly [data downloads is per kilobyte charging in most of our telecoms]
Another downside is that Google Maps may not have routing information for some places (at least it doesn't have routing information in the Philippines, whereas Ovi Maps does have routing information for the Philippines)
Another nifty new feature of Google Maps is that one could speak out the place that you're looking for (voice recognition), although I'm not sure of its accuracy. (again, an active Internet data connection will be needed for this feature to work).
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