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Nokia is selling off Here Maps. Bought for $6B, yours for a steal at $2B! Seriously, check out Here it's a way better service than either Google's or Microsoft's but thanks to the tangled history it is the location service behind all of the WindowsPhone navigation apps.

Seems it actually was:
http://here.com/usa/stockholm/map=41.08509,-74.51112,13/title=Stockholm
http://here.com/usa/stockholm/map=47.02584,-68.16322,13/title=Stockholm
Or could Stockholm http://here.com/59.333685,18.1037361,11,0,0,normal.day sue them for pirating?

Seems it actually was:
http://here.com/usa/stockholm/map=41.08509,-74.51112,13/title=Stockholm
http://here.com/usa/stockholm/map=47.02584,-68.16322,13/title=Stockholm
Or could Stockholm http://here.com/59.333685,18.1037361,11,0,0,normal.day sue them for pirating?

Seems it actually was:
http://here.com/usa/stockholm/map=41.08509,-74.51112,13/title=Stockholm
http://here.com/usa/stockholm/map=47.02584,-68.16322,13/title=Stockholm
Or could Stockholm http://here.com/59.333685,18.1037361,11,0,0,normal.day sue them for pirating?

I always found Nokia maps to be better than Google maps on my phone, but I haven't used it since Nokia switch to Microsoft only.
I'm looking forward to trying 'here maps', which is what came out of it in the shake, once it is available for other platforms : http://here.com/

However, I guess it has similar issues to Google in this context.

Oh yeah, sure. Perfect day for it, as we are having a light snow shower this morning, which turned the Mass pike into a parking lot. Before you start claiming unfairness, Google knows about it because it colored the I-90 the darkest red they have available. So let's commute to downtown:

Google directions: tells me to join the party on the Mass pike. It also tells me to get off at South station, which is grid locked even on a nice and sunny day. That route, at this time, would take probably an hour or more. (The alternate routes are just as bad, for example there's some construction on Route 9 in Chestnut Hills.)

So let's see if we can get there in half that time. Zoom in. See that straight line between the two points? There's even a label on it: Beacon St. Yeah. Scenic, too, right by BC. It would've been easy as that. But wait, if I put the same route into Nokia's map, I get that exact route!!! So there's light! Google should just buy Nokia! And Nokia did that with a fraction of data collected from its users (well, unless I missed the news that they started outselling Android handsets.)

Or as an alternative, Nokia could be working on a self driving car?

They just gave the stray users who've been using Google Maps on Windows Phone another reason to switch to Here Maps.

And here is a very good link that will keep you from getting your pants in a bunch when people forget to link URLs.

As an aside, it's not that hard, people, just enclose your URL like this: <URL:http://your.url.here.com/>, and the magic of /. transforms it into http://your.url.here.com/

Here's yer link :)